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Former teacher Bevie Pratt dies at 96
Bevie Pratt, 96, died Sunday, June 26,2005, at St. Joseph
Hospital in Lexington. She was well-known and remembered in Knott
County for many years of teaching, church involvement and community
service.
A native of Hindman, she was born September 16, 1908, to the late
James Elbert and Dora Calhoun Perkins. She was married for 60 years
to Clark Pratt, a Hindman Attorney, who preceded her in death in
1993.
Bevie graduated from Hindman High School in 1926, attended Caney
Junior College (now Alice Lloyd College) and received an AB degree
from Berea College in 1932. She taught for 30 years in the Knott
County School System
Mrs. Pratt began teaching soon after high school graduation in a
one-room school in a rural section of the county, where
transportation was by horseback. After retirement in 1974, she
substituted at Hindman High School, where she had taught English for
24 years.
She was instrumental in organizing the Knott County Retired Teachers
Association and served as the first President. In the early nineties
she was acknowledged by a former student in Who's Who Among
America's Teachers.
Source: Troublesome Creek Times |
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