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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno’s past remaining Pearl Harbor subsister was laid to remainder Tuesday.
William Pratt died connected Jan. 23 astatine 103 years old.
“That is simply a agelong life. He was blessed with these years for surviving close and being obedient to the Word of God,” Pratt’s oldest lad Bill Pratt Jr. said.
Pratt’s household says helium lived a beingness marked by dedication and work – ever putting others earlier himself.
“I ne'er heard a connection spoken against him,” Pratt Jr. said.
Pratt served successful the Navy for six years and was astatine Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack.
He and his member were aboard the U.S.S. Nevada erstwhile it took a torpedo.
“My grandma attributes their endurance to the information that they honored some their parents and they knew the Lord,” Pratt Jr. said.
Pratt was calved successful Bloomington, Illinois Dec. 19, 1921. He moved to Illinois Street successful Fresno aft the warfare to unfastened a metallic manufacturing business.
There helium met his woman Pauline and unneurotic they had 2 sons. The 2 were joined for implicit 70 years.
Pratt Jr. says his begetter worked hard to supply for his household but was intentional to walk prime clip with them arsenic good – helium was their hero.
Despite Pratt’s bravery successful warfare and hard enactment to instrumentality attraction of them, Pratt Jr. says the azygous astir important happening his begetter ever did was thatch them astir Jesus.
“We were fixed Bibles and went to religion together. We work those Bibles arsenic a household astatine the room table,” Pratt Jr. said.
Pratt Jr. says those elemental room array memories are what helium cherishes the most.
“I could not person asked for a amended father… He volition beryllium missed,” Pratt Jr. said.
