Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Tuesday, May 5, 1964

MRS. PRATER

Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine Amelia Prater, 33, of 1924 12th St., will be held in the Hixson Funeral Home chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

The Rev. T. V. Owens, pastor of Boulevard Baptist Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Mrs. Prater died at 12:03 p.m. Monday in a Lake Charles hospital after a brief illness. She was a traffic director for television station KPLC. A native of Monroe, she had lived in Calcasieu Parish for 21 years.

Survivors are two daughters, Cynthia and Shayne Prater, both of Lake Charles; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon C. Lay of Lake Charles and one brother, Larry Eugene Lay of Long Beach, Calif.