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Alma L. Pratt, 88

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Alma Laverne Pratt, 88, of North Adams, died Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, at North Adams Commons.

Born in Athens, Ala., on March 11, 1927, daughter of Wiley and Mary Frances Green Moore, she attended schools in Alabama and later completed the Bliss Business College in North Adams. She had moved to North Adams in 1944.

Mrs. Pratt was employed as a medical assistant to Dr. Arthur Mazzu for 27 years, until her retirement in 1984. She had first worked at the former Sprague Electric Co.

She was a member of St. Andrew's Church in Blackinton. She was a member and former president of the Berkshire County Medical Assistants Association and enjoyed arts and crafts and knitting.

Her husband, William LeRoy Pratt, whom she married on Jan. 22, 1948, died Dec. 31, 2012.

She leaves a son, Ronald G. Pratt and his wife, Mary Ann, of Adams; a daughter, Catherine H. Verrier and her husband, Lionel, of North Adams; three sisters, Marie Taylor of Russellville, Ala., Edna Pearl Harrison of Leighton, Ala., and Betty Jean Sibley of Sheffield, Ala.; four grandchildren, Rebekah Verrier-Pytko of Greenfield, Amy Lee Burton of Melbourne, Australia, Jessica Cramer of North Adams and William C. Pratt of Brunswick, Maine; four great-grandchildren, Olivia Pytko, James Burton, Connor Burton and Nathan Cramer; her daughter-in-law, Martha Pratt of North Adams, and nieces and nephews.

Her son, William R. Pratt, and her siblings, William White and Grace Staggs, predeceased her.

FUNERAL NOTICE — The funeral for Mrs. Pratt will be Saturday, Oct. 10, at 10 a.m. at Flynn & Dagnoli-Montagna Home for Funerals, West Chapels, 521 West Main St., North Adams. Burial will follow in Southview Cemetery. There will be no calling hours.

Memorial donations may be made to HospiceCare of the Berkshires in care of the funeral home.


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