Edna Edwards Pritchett passed away suddenly on Thursday, March 12, 2009 after suffering a massive heart attack. She was 92.
Edna was born and raised in St. Louis and was a proud 1934 graduate of Sumner High School. She worked at the historic Homer G. Phillips Hospital for many years, serving first with the American Cancer Society and then with the Chaplain’s office where she counseled hundreds of patients. She also gave many years of dedicated service to the St. Louis Board of Education and the International Division of the Monsanto Corporation from which she retired in 1979.
An active member of the University City community for over 40 years, Edna was a dedicated volunteer with the St. Louis County Board of Elections and served proudly as a reading advocate for children with the University City Public Schools.
Her husband of 43 years, Raymond Pritchett, Sr., passed away in 1985 and her only sibling, Regina Edwards, passed in 2004.
Survivors include Mattelyn Pritchett Joplin and Edna Jean Pritchett Smith of St. Louis; Harriet Pritchett Grigsby (Marshall) of Silver Spring, Maryland and a son, Raymond Pritchett, Jr., of Tucson, Arizona; two grandsons, and an abundance of other relatives and close friends.
Services were held on March 18, 2009 at Samaritan United Methodist Church where she was a lifelong member.