Walt Pruitt
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parent of Walter
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born Mar 22, 1941Died 11/9/2022
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83 records, oldest first2022
Nov 10
Nov 10
Dad died last night at eight minutes till ten. It was my night. Mom was asleep…
…in the bedroom and I was in the recliner beside him. His breathing had been changing all day, long gaps. I counted one gap at forty seconds and then there wasn't another breath.
I sat there a minute. Then I woke Mom. Then I called hospice, and Tanya came at eleven and did what they do, and the funeral home came at o…
Nov 10
Fairbanks-Teague Funeral Home, Cleveland. Alan Teague 423-555-0157
visitation Sat 11/12 5-8. service Sun 2:00 New Harmony. burial after
Chestuee Hills Memorial Park, Garden of Peace, lot 114. Dad space 3, Mom's is 4. bought 1996
total 11,870 - casket 3,200, vault 1,450, services 4,900, opening/closing 1,300, flowers & the rest
Lanternfield pays, Teague will wait
gave Teague the DD-21…
Nov 10
Walter Eugene Pruitt, 81, of Cleveland, died Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at hi…
…s home with his family beside him.
Born March 22, 1941 in Bradley County to the late Ernest and Vida Pruitt. U.S. Army, 1960-1963, stationed in Germany. He worked 38 years at the range plant and retired in 2003. Member of New Harmony Baptist Church, where he kept the grounds.
Survived by his wife of 58 years, Lorrain…
Nov 11
Dad - estate
Nov 11
what Dad said, June, on the carport
will is at Castellaw's. me executor
all to Mom. watch to me, Browning to Russ
sell the truck
New Harmony, Holloway. "not too long"
Nov 12
Passport · Walt Pruitt
Nov 12
Dad's will 2011
Nov 14
The funeral was yesterday. The church was full, which would have embarrassed hi…
…m. Pastor Holloway kept it to thirty-five minutes. The Army sent two young soldiers and one of them handed Mom the flag and said the words and she said "thank you, honey."
Russ and I carried him with four others. He weighed nothing.
All day people called me Walter. I've been Walt since I was six so they could tell…
Nov 15
PRUITT, WALTER EUGENE JR · Walt Pruitt
Nov 16
death cert - funeral home copy
Nov 18
Kemp gave me 30 the week after Dad died. Took about ten. · Walt Pruitt
Kemp gave me 30 the week after Dad died. Took about ten.
Nov 20
Dad's email
Not mine. Forwarding to me is on.
Nov 21
Dad - to do (Castellaw's list + mine)
[x] death certs, ordered 10
[x] Social Security - Teague reported it. Mom appt 12/6
[x] pension - Calloway Range, survivor form
[x] Lanternfield life claim LF-7730195
[ ] probate - hearing 12/19
[ ] his savings acct needs the letters
[ ] truck title
[ ] Buick title
[ ] cancel his cell, his supplement, the fishing maga…
Nov 21
LF-7730195
Nov 22
Dad death certificate
Nov 23
Probate hearing, Bradley County courthouse
Nov 24
Sell my truck. Don't let it sit in the yard. A truck that sits is a truck that'…
…s dying, and your mother doesn't need to look at that out the kitchen window.
Nov 27
Larkmoor
furnace filter 20x25x1, hall return, every 2 mo
water shutoff at the meter by the street, key hangs in the shop. inside one - crawlspace hatch, hall closet floor
breakers - carport storage room. Dad's pencil labels, half wrong. range = top right double
gas shutoff at the meter, wrench wired to the pipe
trash Monday
Nov 27
Padlock on Dad's shop
Nov 29
blue folder = Dad. green = Mom
Dec 3
DP-A-0381-520917
Dec 6
SS office w/ Mom. she gets Dad's check now instead of hers, not both. starts w/…
…December. $255 one time
Dec 8
You plant a tomato deep. Up to its neck. Your mother will tell you different an…
…d she has been wrong about it since 1964.
Dec 11
Dad was in the shop sorting screws into the coffee cans. I asked him where the…
…10-32s were and he pointed without looking up. He was the weight he used to be. I knew in the dream he was dead and didn't want to say so in case he hadn't been told. I picked up a can and it was full of the little pink pills, Mom's.
Dec 13
Social Security · Dad
Dec 14
Dad's cell - cancel after the 19th. pictures off first
Dec 15
Birth Certificate · Walt Pruitt
Dec 16
Passport · Dad
Dec 19
Letters Testamentary
Dec 20
DD-214 back in the fire box. Teague kept one
Dec 23
I had a good run. Don't let them put in the paper that I fought it. I didn't fi…
…ght it. I just lived till I was done.
Dec 23
Dad's wedding band
Fireproof box. Mom wants Russ to have it.
Dec 25
Christmas at Mom's. Her TV died on the 22nd, so that's what she got, two days l…
…ate. Cam made the breakfast casserole. Mom set four places and then stood there, and Cam took the fourth plate and put it back in the cabinet without a word.
Russ called at two. Ten minutes.
Russ had a case made for the flag and mailed it. Walnut, with Dad's name on a brass plate. She held it a long time. Then she…
Dec 26
Mom's Buick
Dec 28
Dad's shop
Russ took: Browning, tackle box, framing square, footlocker
me: table saw, drill press, Snap-on box, the bench w/ the vise
stays: mower, weedeater, carport cabinet, his chair
Cody - torque wrenches, yes
11 coffee cans of screws ??
2023
Jan 8
PPO
Through work. Deductible $1,500 each, $3,000 family.
Jan 8
Dental PPO
Jan 15
Three trips to Cleveland a week now. Tuesday and Thursday after work and all da…
…y Sunday. Sixty-two miles round trip. Mom says she's fine and the refrigerator says otherwise: a quart of buttermilk, half a pound cake somebody brought in November, and Dad's hot sauce.
She's sleeping in her chair, not the bed. She says the bed is too big.
Dennis asked on Friday how I'm holding up and I said fine.
Feb 3
Mom fell in the kitchen night before last and broke her hip. She was on the flo…
…or I don't know how long. She pulled the wall phone down by the cord and called 911 and then called me at 2:40 and said, "I've done something silly."
Surgery was this afternoon. Dr. Voss says it went fine. She's 77 with a bad heart and diabetes and it went fine.
I sat in the same waiting room where I sat for her kn…
Feb 4
Whitlow 318. partial hip, left, 70 min
PT tomorrow. Eliquis restarts tomorrow night
confused last night, pulled at her IV, asked for Dad
rehab 3 wks or so, Linden Court has a bed Tues. Medicare 20 days full
bring: glasses, teeth cup, the blue robe
Feb 11
Mom's keys
- Mrs Jenkins (2221) has one
- spare on a nail inside Dad's shop, left of the door, behind the pegboard
- mine: the brass one w/ the red nail polish
- lockbox going on the carport post
back deadbolt sticks, lift the knob
Feb 12
Linden Court. It's clean and the therapy people are good. The hall smells like…
…every one of these places smells. Her roommate has the TV on a game show channel at a volume you could hear from the lot.
Mom walked twelve feet on the walker today. She's clearer than she was in the hospital but she asked me twice when Walter was coming to get her. The second time I said, "I'm here, Mom," and she l…
Feb 22
Cleveland Utilities account (Mom's house)
Account is still in Dad's name.
Apr 5
Pinnock Valley took the POA. 50 min and a manager. I sign "Lorraine M. Pruitt b…
…y Walter E. Pruitt Jr., POA". new checks ordered
Apr 5
ACCOUNT NUMBERS
Mom - Pinnock Valley Bank, routing 064117823
checking 30418-7726 (SS and pension in, bills out)
savings 30418-9941
CD $40,000, 4.10%, matures 3/15/2027
CD $20,000, 3.85%, matures 9/15/2027
IRA (was Dad's) about $38k - has to take some out every December
Me - Tanager FCU, routing 264181570
checking 00714522…
Apr 8
Arnie tore out Mom's tub this week. Pink tile, 1964. She stood in the hall with…
…her walker and watched it go out the door in buckets. I asked if she was all right and she said she'd hated that tile for forty-nine years and Walter wouldn't change it.
Easter tomorrow. I'll take her to church. First time back since the hip.
I went out to the shop to find a level and stood there. It still smells l…
Apr 18
stone set. gray granite, companion
PRUITT
WALTER EUGENE / MAR 22 1941 - NOV 9 2022 / US ARMY
LORRAINE MAE / FEB 11 1945 -
MARRIED JUNE 20 1964
dogwood in the corner. 3,480
May 6
Dad's truck to Linda, $9,500. check to the estate acct
May 6
Dad's retirement watch
Bulova. W.E.P. 38 YEARS 1965-2003 on the back. Still in his dresser.
May 7
Sold Dad's truck yesterday, to Linda. He told me to and I did, ten months after…
…he said it. I cleaned it out first. Under the seat there was a tire gauge, a church bulletin from 2019, eleven dollars in quarters for the car wash, and a pocket notebook where he wrote every tank of gas since 2006. Date, gallons, miles. I kept the notebook.
Jun 10
I was driving the Silverado and Dad was in the passenger seat giving directions…
…. Left at the church, right at the gin. There hasn't been a cotton gin there since before I was born. I asked where we were going and he said, "You'll know it." I woke up before we got there.
Aug 22
Order closing estate 8-22-23
Aug 23
The estate closed yesterday. I got an order in the mail with a judge's signatur…
…e and that's that. Everything my father owned fit in a nine-month file about an inch thick.
Russ called to ask if it was done and whether there was anything he needed to sign. There wasn't. There never was.
I'm not mad at him. That's not right, I'm some mad at him. He was the one Dad laughed with. I was the one Dad…
Oct 3
Hospice started a year ago today. I didn't write any of it down then and I'm lo…
…sing the order, so here it is.
April 26, the oncologist, in a room with a poster of a waterfall. Stage four. Both lungs, his liver, a spot on his spine. He asked her if he could still mow. One round of chemo in May. He was sick nine days and said that's enough of that. Father's Day we fished off the bank below the d…
Nov 9
One year. I took the day off and drove Mom out to the cemetery. She brought the…
…last of the mums from the porch. She stood there a while and then read her own name off the stone out loud, and the year she was born, and the dash. She said, "Well, they've got me a place." Then she wanted a fish sandwich. We got fish sandwiches.
Dec 29
Credit · Walt Pruitt
2024
Mar 10
Did Mom's numbers at the kitchen table tonight. What comes in, what goes out. R…
…oz is about fourteen hundred a month. It comes out a little ahead if nothing breaks. Things break.
Then I did mine. Cam starts college in August.
I met somebody. Mike's wife's cousin, at their fish fry. Carla. She's a dental hygienist and she's been divorced longer than I have. I told her inside of ten minutes that…
May 19
Camille graduated yesterday. Honors cords. She found us in the crowd from the f…
…loor and pointed at Mom in the wheelchair section and waved with both arms.
Denise sat two seats down from me. We were fine.
Mom told every person at lunch that Camille was going to be a nurse. Cam hasn't decided that. I think Mom decided it.
I wished Dad had seen it.
Jul 2
Debit · Walt Pruitt
Nov 10
Two years yesterday. Mom didn't mention it and I didn't either. I don't know if…
…she knew the date. She asked me at supper whether Walter had paid the light bill, and then she caught it herself and put her fork down. I said, "It's paid, Mom. I paid it." She said, "You're a good boy."
2025
Apr 20
Easter. A good day, start to finish. Church, and she sang. Ham at her house, Ca…
…m and Maddie drove down. In the afternoon I put Dad's tomato bed in and Mom sat in the lawn chair in her Easter dress and a sun hat and bossed the job. She didn't ask where he was once. She said, "Your daddy would have had those in two weeks ago."
May 31
Debit · Walt Pruitt
Jun 10
for the memory doctor Thurs
- same question 3-4x in an hour
- checkbook: quit summer 2023
- stove eye left on, twice (March, May)
- calls me Walter sometimes
- can't do the pill box w/o Roz
- still good: church, hymns, recipes, who everybody's people are
- 50 min home from Food City
ask: is it Alzheimer's. what's coming. anything that works. liv…
Jun 29
The report came. I read it at the kitchen counter standing up. It has a score o…
…n it. I'm not going to write the score here.
She called me Walter three times today. Not Walt. One of those times she was talking to me, and two of them she was talking to him.
I answer either way.
Aug 3
what helps (Cam, Russ, whoever's with her)
- don't quiz her. don't say "remember?"
- where's Dad: "he's not here right now, Mom." then the garden
- late afternoon is the worst. lights on early, Andy on, something to fold
- hymns
- snap beans, fold towels, peel peaches. let her
- one thing at a time
Oct 6
Dad, three years
Nov 9
Three years today. Went to the cemetery by myself this morning before I picked…
…Mom up for church. Told him the truck's got 121,000 on it and the Vols are 6 and 3. Told him I looked at two homes yesterday.
He made me promise to look after her. He didn't say how. He could have meant keep her in that house no matter what. He could have meant see that she's safe wherever that is. He was a precise…
2026
Jan 11
The agency went up to twenty-nine an hour. I did the arithmetic again tonight.…
…It still works at three mornings a week. It doesn't work at five, and five is coming. Roz said so herself, carefully, on Friday. She said Mom isn't getting dressed on the days she's not there.
Russ's three hundred came twice and stopped. I'm not going to chase my brother for three hundred dollars.
There's a long-te…
Mar 9
Buick title - STILL in Dad's name (Walter E. Pruitt, no Jr.)
clerk says, to put it in Mom's:
- certified death cert (have 3)
- the title
- affidavit of inheritance, notarized, form's at the counter
- Mom signs, or me as POA w/ the POA
- $20-something
clerk closes 4:30
Wanda: title first, then the insurance
Apr 26
Dad and Camille and I were in the boat on a lake that didn't have a shore. He w…
…as baiting her hook and she was grown, the age she is now, in her scrubs. He was the age he was when he died and I was the age I am. He said, "She holds a rod better than you," and I said I know it.
May 10
Fished with Mike yesterday morning. Five pounds two ounces, the best bass I've…
…had in two years, and I stood in the boat holding it and thought, I need to be in Cleveland by two. Mike took the picture. Today is Mother's Day. I took her the hanging basket, the pink ones she likes, and she said, "Walter always gets me the pink ones." I said he sure does.
May 20
Whitlow again. Roz called at ten this morning and said Mom didn't know what day…
…it was and was asking for Dad to come in from work. She had a fever. It's a urinary infection, and at her age and with her memory that's enough to take the floor out.
She's on an IV. I told three different people about the penicillin and the sulfa. It was already on her wristband. I told them anyway.
She knew me to…
May 24
Home Friday. She's most of the way back. Not all. The doctor said that's how it…
…goes, each one of these takes a little and gives most of it back.
Roz and I talked on the carport. She'll do five mornings. I called Pam and it starts the first of June.
That's twenty-five hundred a month, and Mom brings in twenty-five sixty. So from here on the house, the lights, the insurance and the groceries al…
Jun 21
Roz's notebook this wk
Mon - ate good. bath. sugar 162. wt 149
Tues - asked for Mr. Walter at breakfast, settled
Weds - didn't want to dress. tried again at 10, fine
Thurs - hair
Fri - bath. Thurs evening pills still in the box
Jun 21
Father's Day. Cam drove down and we went and saw Dad and then ate barbecue.
She asked, because she's in nursing school now and they teach them to ask, whether I have my own papers done. A will. Somebody to speak for me. I said I'd get to it. She said, "Dad. You have a folder for Grandma's cat."
I looked last night. The only will I ever made leaves everything to Denise. It's twenty-two years…
Jul 9
Filed the claim on Mom's long-term-care policy yesterday. I read the whole poli…
…cy first, twice, with a highlighter, like a spec book. It does cover home care. It's been sitting in that box the whole three years I've been writing checks to Gentle Ridge.
I could be sick about that. Three years. But she wouldn't have qualified at three mornings a week with her mind mostly right. She does now.
Da…
Aug 23
Got the Buick's mirror fixed yesterday. Second thing she's hit this year.
Dad bought that car for her. He drove it home and handed her the keys in the carport and said it's got heated seats, Lorraine. She's had it twelve years and it has fifty-six thousand miles on it and it's the last thing she does by herself.
I can take the keys. I've got the paper that says I can do about anything. I h…
Sep 7
Renew the Buick's registration
Sep 7
Labor Day, all day at Mom's, Roz off. A good one.
We picked the last tomatoes. She made cornbread, start to finish, no help, didn't measure, and it was right. She told me how she met Dad at the skating rink in Benton. She was eighteen and he was just out of the Army and he couldn't skate. He held the rail the whole night and asked her three times if she wanted a Coke…
Sep 14
Dad, four years
Sep 21
Buick insurance renews next week
Oct 2
Russ and Tammy - Tues 11/24 to Sat 11/28. they stay at Mom's (bench grinder off…
…the bed)
tell Russ before he gets here
dinner at Mom's. Cam, Betty, Linda & hers
Russ - Dad's dresser, w/ Mom
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Facts
| First name | Walter |
|---|---|
| Middle name | Eugene |
| Last name | Pruitt |
| Nickname | Dad |
| Date of birth | 1941-03-22 |
| Gender | Male |
| Comments | Died 11/9/2022. |
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Mom · 1 record Cam · 1 record Russ · 1 record Tammy (Russ's wife) · 1 record Cody Pruitt · 1 record Paige Pruitt · 1 record Denise Halloran · 1 record Aunt Betty · 1 record Uncle Harold · 1 record Linda Gossett · 1 record Boone · 1 record Dr. Tolbert (Mom's primary) · 1 recordQuestions
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q006 What's my dad's driver's license number? q029 What's Walter's date of birth? q002 What's my father's SSN? q005 What's the passport number for Walter Pruitt? q008 Whose passports are expired? q017 Who do they put down as emergency contact, and who has her health care power of attorney? q028 Where's my will? q038 Which funeral home did we use for Dad, and where's the plot? q049 What's the state file number on Dad's death certificate? q064 What was it Dad said about not fighting it?