Linda Pearl Phillips Prater
Published 2:18 pm Thursday, October 12, 2017
Linda Pearl Phillips Prater, 68, died on Sunday, October 8, 2017 at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur, Texas. A native of Jeanerette, LA she was a longtime resident of Port Arthur, TX and was baptized by H.B. McCarty. She was a member of Solid Rock Baptist Church and retired as a Scrub Nurse of 40 years from the Medical Center of Southeast Texas. She was married to the late Joseph Prater.
Linda leaves to mourn her death three sons, Wendell, Daimond and Brandon Prater; siblings, Benny Roy, Michael and Grayling Phillips, Cynthia(Shelton) Forrest, Min. Gwendolyn Lewis and Juanita Curtis; six grandchildren, Jonae, Israel and Isaiah Prater; Courtney Spann, Cameron and Corderel Fairley; four great- grandchildren; 3 aunts; a brother-in-law Ernest(Theresa) Prater, Jr.; two sisters-in law, Brenda Young and Bertha (Louis) Jackson; three godchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, October 14, 2017 at Eastern Star Baptist Church, 548 15th Street, Port Arthur, TX with visitation from 9 a.m. until service time. Entombment will follow in Live Oak Cemetery under the direction of Gabriel Funeral Home.