Funeral services for Bobby Joe Pritchard, 73, of Reeds Lake will be held at 10:00 A.M. Friday at First Baptist Church in Rogers with Rev. Billy Ray Crow officiating. Burial will be in Reeds Lake Cemetery. Mr. Pritchard died Tuesday at his residence. Mr. Pritchard was born in Temple to Paul Pritchard and Nophia Sanders Pritchard. He married Wilma Stewart Nov. 17, 1960. He served in the U.S. Air Force for twenty years having served in Vietnam and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was a farmer and delivered the Temple Daily Telegram over thirty three years. He had driven a school bus for Academy Schools and had worked for Montgomery Ward and King's Daughters Hospital. He had lived at Reeds Lake his entire life. Survivors include his wife Wilma Pritchard of Reeds Lake; four sons Bobby Dean Pritchard of Reeds Lake, Gregory Pritchard of Little Rock, Arkansas, Michael Pritchard of Reeds Lake and Bruce Pritchard of Reeds Lake and four grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Thursday at Scanio-Harper Funeral Home.
