Robert Prewitt

Robert C. "Bob" Prewitt of Temple, Texas, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, died December 23, 2016. Visitation will be held on December 30 from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. at Scanio-Harper Funeral Home with services immediately following, officiated by Rev. Gary DeSalvo of Temple Bible Church. Burial with military honors will follow at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery near Killeen. Born in 1936, in Altus, Oklahoma, to Ira C. and Dede Prewitt, he graduated from Altus High School in 1954, and from Oklahoma University in 1958. Bob then entered the U.S. Marine Corps and was a rifle company commander in Vietnam where he was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star Medals. He later commanded an infantry battalion and then an infantry regiment in the 2d Marine Division. During the Cold War he was the Senior Emergency Actions Officer in the Military Command Center at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. After retiring from military service as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1981, Bob directed an outreach ministry in Dallas that taught conversational English to more than 800 Southeast Asian refugees and other foreign-born adults. After a move to Denver in 1990, where he was employed by General Electric and later the City of Denver, Bob retired in 1998, and relocated to Temple in 2003. Bob was a member of Temple Bible Church where he regularly attended the Men’s Bible Study and did volunteer work. A member of several genealogical societies, he was also an alumnus of the ATO national social fraternity as well as a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is survived by his wife, Dianne; children, Dr. Kerry C. Prewitt and wife Patricia, Carol J. Huffman and husband David, Colin J. Prewitt, Natasha Yeager and husband Bradley, and Sandy Dollard and husband John as well as eight grandchildren: Kevin, Brant, Brett, Nicole, Brooke, Mackenzie, Austin, and Savannah. He is also survived by a sister, Joan C. Eger and her husband Ronald Wertz, and a niece, Shaun Farley, and sister-in-law, Cindi Remling and her husband Phil. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Temple Bible Church, 3205 Oakview Drive, Temple, Texas, 76502, or to the International Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Foundation, 6144 Clark Center Ave., Sarasota, FL 34238 http://www.iwmf.com/