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Elmer Wade PRUETT
(1903 –1973)

 

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1. Georgia Roberta RUSSELL

2. Crystal Margaret HOWARD

Elmer Wade PRUETT 3
  • Born: 6 January 1903, Woodbine, Cooke County, Texas, USA
  • Marriage (1): Georgia Roberta RUSSELL on 25 June 1922 in Cooke County, Texas, USA 1
  • Marriage (2): Crystal Margaret HOWARD on 25 December 1942 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA 2
  • Died: 13 May 1973, Rogue River, Jackson County, Oregon, USA at age 70
  • Buried: 1973, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, USA
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bullet  General Notes

Elmer "Wade" and his first wife, Georgia "Roberta," separated  in 1932. Elmer just left.  They divorced about 12 years later, when Elmer married his second wife Chrystal.

Elmer and Chrystal lived on N. Haven street in Portland, Oregon in the early sixty's. Elmer was extremely particular about his lawn. He had his grandson Edward Dean mow it for him. It had to be in perfect diagonal lines, done with a hand mower. If it was not spaced correctly, Dean would have to re-mow it, much to his dismay.

Elmer and Chrystal were avid fisherman. In the 1960's it seemed as though they were always on a fishing trip. Chrystal and Elmer moved to Grants Pass in the late 1960's. Elmer bought 5 acres outside of Rogue River, Oregon. It was bordered on one side by a small creek, and was about 1 mile from a historical covered bridge. He and Chrystal grew almost everything on that 5 acres. They raised chickens, pigs, cows, and steer for meat, etc.  It was not unusual for Wade's son's family to come to Grants Pass to help with the harvest. It was many a summer night that you could see them all in the front yard, schucking black-eyed peas.

In the early 1970's, Chrystal started getting ill. She suffered from Alzeimers. Wade owned a gas station at the time, in Grants Pass. Many days, the neighbors had to call him, to come get Chrystal. She had a tendancy to strip, and walk down the highway. She became very combative, and thought Wade was her father. Wade hired in home care givers, but ended up having to put Chrystal in a nursing home, due to his own medical problems. He suffered many years from heart attacks and strokes.

— bio courtesy of Roberta Wallace

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bullet  Burial Notes

Hillcrest Memorial Park

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • Nickname: Wade.
  • Parents: Jesse Ernest McCarver or Pruett and Ella Minerva Bell.

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Elmer married Georgia Roberta RUSSELL on 25 June 1922 in Cooke County, Texas, USA.1 The marriage ended in divorce before 1942. (Georgia Roberta RUSSELL was born on 3 February 1905 in Grayson County, Texas, USA, died on 30 July 1948 in Collinsville, Grayson County, Texas, USA and was buried in 1948 in Collinsville, Grayson County, Texas, USA.)


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Elmer next married Crystal Margaret HOWARD on 25 December 1942 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.2 (Crystal Margaret HOWARD was born on 22 April 1905 in Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, USA, died on 21 November 1974 in Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington, USA and was buried on 27 November 1974 in Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, USA.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Marriage Certificate (digital or paper copy of official marriage record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining), 1922 Elmer Pruett and Roberta Russell in Cooke County, Texas, USA.
  2. Marriage Certificate (digital or paper copy of official marriage record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining), 1942 Dale Wade Pruett and Crystal Margaret Howard in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, USA.
  3. Kirsty M. Haining.


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