| Pruitt, Mollie | |
| Birth: | Jul. 15, 1933 |
| Death: | Sep. 21, 2021 |
| Comments: | Death date not engraved at time of survey |
| Burial: | Bluff City Cemetery - Old Section |
| Notes: | Originally recorded in a survey on 8-3-2006 and updated on 9-21-2021. |
| Obituary: | Mollie Pruitt, age 88, was born on July 15, 1933, at Bluff City, Arkansas, to John Robert Pruitt and Bessie Howard Pruitt. She died September 21, 2021. She accepted Christ as her Savior at an early age. She was a strong, hardworking, God fearing woman who never forgot from where her strength came. She was a member of Cullendale First Baptist Church. Mollie graduated salutatorian of her class at Gurdon High School. In 1952, she was invited to work for Arkansas Power & Light (now Entergy) and thus began her AP&L career. She worked as a General Clerk in the Gurdon office. In 1979, she was promoted to Business Manager of the Camden office. She was active in the community serving as Board Member and Treasurer of the Camden Area Chamber of Commerce, member of the Ouachita County Facility Board, Board Member of the South Arkansas Youth Center in Magnolia, and a member of the Lions Club. In 1988, Mollie made AP&L history when she became the first female District Manager in the AP&L system. She moved to Marion, Arkansas, where she lived until she retired and moved back to Camden where she met the love of her life, John Wallace Cross. They spent several years restoring houses, which they both enjoyed. Mollie was preceded in death by her parents, four-year-old sister Lois, brothers and sisters-in-law Charles (Marie) Pruitt, Percy (Jamie) Pruitt, Lewis (Mavis) Pruitt, A. J. (Ruby Lee) Pruitt, nephew Charles Pruitt and her beloved John Wallace Cross. Mollie is survived be nieces, Nell Pruitt Cook of Texas, and Elaine Pruitt of Alabama; nephews Lloyd (Cindy) Pruitt of Texas, Neil Pruitt of Chidester, Rick Pruitt of Little Rock, Arnold (Radeana) Pruitt of Oklahoma, and Larry Pruitt of Oklahoma. Funeral service will be held Saturday, September 25th at 2 pm at Proctor Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow at Bluff City Cemetery. |
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