Robbie Wortham Prather Lott

Robbie Lott, 92, died Thursday, May 14, 2015, at her assisted living apartment in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Her caregivers at Emeritus Senior Living, truly friends, mourn the passing of “their southern belle.” Visitation is from 5 – 7 PM, Friday, May 22, and 9 – 10:45 AM Saturday, May 23, at Lakewood Memorial Funeral Home, 6011 Clinton Boulevard, Jackson, Mississippi. Services will be at the funeral home at 11 AM on May 23, followed by interment in Lakewood Memorial Park. Funeral services will be conducted by Elders David Pyles and Mark Quarles. Pallbearers will be members of Grace Primitive Baptist Church, of which Robbie was a founding member. Robbie is survived by her daughter, Lynda Nelson, and her husband, Rodney, of Fort Smith Arkansas, and her son, Pat Prather, and his wife, Marian, of Lakeville Massachusetts, step-son Paul Lott, and his wife Kris, of Fountain Valley California, Ellen Lott of Garden Grove California, and step-daughter Phyliss Pfortmueller of Palm Springs California, along with 6 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Robbie was born in Coffeeville, Mississippi, in the Scuna Valley Community to the late Robert Henry Wortham and Lura York Wortham on October 23, 1922. Upon graduation of Coffeeville High School in 1940, Robbie attended and graduated from Jackson Commercial College, then was employed by the Standard Life Company of Jackson. During that time, she met Wicks Morgan Prather. Wicks enlisted in the United States Navy shortly before the outbreak of WWII, and served in the Pacific theatre. Upon his return to Jackson, they were married May 3, 1944. They were married until Wicks’ death, June 7, 1979. In late 1979, Robbie and her preteen sweetheart met for the first time in forty-one years. She and Edwin Lawson (Zell) Lott quickly spanned the years of full lives for each, and were married in 1980. They remained married until Zell’s death, November 20, 2003. Robbie was a long term employee of Internal Revenue Service in Jackson, and was a member of the National Treasury Employees Union. She retired from IRS in 1982. She was a member of National Active and Retired Federal Employees. Robbie was for many years the chairperson of the Jackson NARFE chapter’s fund raising efforts on behalf of Alzheimer’s research. The family requests that donations be made to Alzheimer’s Association in lieu of flowers.