Lorraine Catherine Pritt of Warren passed away Tuesday, March 10, peacefully in her sleep after a brief health struggle. She had been widowed the last seven years from the late Rev. Dr. Troy Lynn Pritt also of Warren. They were married sixty years and six months. She is survived by four sons Paul (Sandra), Mark (Christine), David (Kim), and Andrew. She also is survived by nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. She was born September 7, 1940 in Baltimore City, Maryland to the late Harry Davenport Barrows, Jr. and Rosa Margrethe Barrows also of Baltimore. She had one sister, the late Ruth Godey. She graduated from Patterson Park High School in Baltimore in 1958. On New Years Eve 1958 she married the love of her life Troy. They then traveled the world as her husband was in the military, including living in Yorkshire in the village of Harrogate in the United Kingdom. In 1970 she switched roles from being a military housewife to ministers wife when her husband became an ordained minister in the Associated Presbyterian Church. In 1977, she joined the professional workforce as a member of Accounts Receivable for Bendix Corporation in West Virginia. In 1985, she graduated from Dyersburg State College in Tennessee as a Licensed Practical Nurse. In September 1986, they moved to Bradley County, Arkansas where her husband pastored a parish of three churches. She went to work at Wagnon Place Nursing Home in Warren. In 1995, she went to work at Bradley County Medical Center where she faithfully worked till 2012, retiring. In addition to her family and work life she enjoyed canning, gardening, cross stitch, word puzzles and reading as well as watching murder mysteries. She faithfully supported financially and with prayer different missionaries and missions. She had a positive attitude, a cheeky sense of humor, and a deep abiding daily faith in God. After a series of strokes, she endured intensive physical therapy and a regime of shots attempting to regain use of her legs and body.
The service was held Friday, March 13th at Hickory Springs ARP church in Hermitage with visitation at 10:30 and the service at 11:00.
The presiding minister for her last rites is Rev. Bill Holiman who ironically attended seminary with her late husband. Music was provided by Dr. Renee Clark of UAM. She was laid beside her late husband afterwards. Pallbearers active and honorary were her four sons (Paul, Mark, David, Andrew) as well as Blake Buttry, Timothy Kessler, Evan Tanner, Josiah Wheeler, Freddrick Young, Jane Harris, Dr. Joe Hank Wharton, Dr. Kerry Pennington, Mayor of Warren Gregg Reep, Dianne Curry, Bobbye Webb and Lea Ann Forrest.
