Mrs. Artie Bell Hogue Prater “Memaw”, age 92, of Sandersville died on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at Washington County Regional Medical Center in Sandersville. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 12 at 1 p.m. at Austin & Bell Funeral Home Chapel in Pleasant View, Tennessee with burial at Jackson Chapel Cemetery in Dickson, TN. The family will receive friends at Austin & Bell Funeral Home from 11 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12th.
Mrs. Prater was a native of Dickson, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Jessie Ellis Hogue and Gertie Gafford Hogue. She was the wife of the late Herschel Odell Prater. Mrs. Prater had lived in Washington County for many years and was a homemaker. She attended White Oak Church. She was preceded in death by a son, Jesse Herschel “Sonny” Prater, sister, Ione Hogue Osborne and brother, Jesse Ellis Hogue.
Mrs. Prater is survived by two daughters, Lisa Prater Jones and her husband John of Sandersville and Joyce Prater Sullivan of Kissimmee Florida; son, Michael Dwight Prater of Davisboro; eleven grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; nine great great grandchildren; sister in law, Janice Hogue of Pleasant View; and nieces and nephew, Keith Hogue, Kaye Keller, Ann Jones, Wanda Clifton, Linda Cathey, and Reyna Jackson.
The family will receive friends at May and Smith Funeral Home in Sandersville on Friday from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M.
May and Smith Funeral Directors in Sandersville is in charge of the arrangements.