Individual Details
Vealdor Thomas PRATER
(12 Jul 1921 - 8 Mar 2016)
Spelling of first name from obituary.
Events
| Birth | 12 Jul 1921 | Ft. Payne, DeKalb Co., Ala |  | ||
| Census | 1930 | Adamsburg, DeKalb Co., Ala | | ||
| Census | 1940 | DeKalb Co., Ala | | ||
| Living | 1942 | DeKalb Co., Ala | | ||
| Military | 6 Oct 1942 | enlisted in U.S. Army - Ft. McClelland, Ala | | ||
| Marriage | 17 Nov 1946 | DeKalb Co., Ala - Dorothy BAILEY | | ||
| Living | 2016 | McDonald, Bradley Co., TN | |||
| Death | 8 Mar 2016 | Cleveland, Bradley Co., TN | | ||
| Obituary | 11 Mar 2016 | Times-Journal - Ft. Payne, DeKalb Co., Ala | |||
| Burial | 12 Mar 2016 | Walkers Chapel Cemetery, Dogtown, DeKalb Co., Ala | |  |
Families
| Spouse | Dorothy BAILEY (1924 - 2000) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Jesse John "Jessie" PRATER (1894 - 1969) |
| Mother | Edna Odessa FOY (1899 - 1993) |
| Sibling | Lewis Calvin PRATER (1923 - 2001) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Melba Vaudine PRATER (1929 - 1998) |
| Sibling | Jesse 'Ozell' PRATER (1932 - 1977) |
| Sibling | Talmadge R. PRATER (1935 - 2015) |
| Sibling | Elna Fay PRATER (1938 - 2009) |
| Sibling | Malcolm Claude PRATER (1940 - 2018) |
| Sibling | Thomas Andrew "TA" PRATER (1944 - 1945) |
Notes
Birth
From: gravestone; obituary; U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 (Ancestry.com).Census
Age 8, shown as "Valdo".Census
Age 18, living with parents, shown as "Wallace".Living
From enlistment record.Military
From: U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 (Ancestry.com).Marriage
From: shared gravestone; Alabama, Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 (Ancestry.com) shows just Nov 1946Death
From obituary; gravestone.Burial
From obituary.Endnotes
1. From: Find-A-Grave -- https://www.findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=160914491.