Edwin Kenneth "Bud" Pruitt

September 25, 1934 - January 6, 2013

Edwin Kenneth "Bud" Pruitt, 78, passed away on Sunday morning, January 6, 2013, at his home in Bryan, Texas. Visitation is scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. at Memorial Funeral Chapel in Bryan. Funeral services will be at 10 A.M. Wednesday, January 9, at the funeral home, with Brother Al Jolly of the Franklin Church of Christ officiating. Interment will follow in the Nesbitt Cemetery in Robertson County.

Bud was born September 25, 1934 to Lorraine Mitchell and Eddie Pruitt in Robertson County. He graduated from the Bremond High School. In 1953 he met Faye Davis of Bryan and on September 25, 1955 married Faye and moved to Bryan. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and was a member of the Brazos Union Lodge 129 A.F. & A.M. in Bryan. He was a member of the A&M Church of Christ. He loved boating, fishing, hunting, and most of all his family. He was the director of Engineering for Humana Hospital in Bryan and retired in 1993.

He is preceded in death by his parents Eddie and Lorraine, and his brother Donald Pruitt.

He is survived by his wife, Faye Davis Pruitt of Bryan; two sons and daughters-in-law, Joe K. and Kathy Pruitt of Bremond, Texas, and Terry R. and Kelly Pruitt of College Station; one sister and brother-in-law, Margaret Winborn and Dr. W.T. Winborn of Boerne, Texas; four grandchildren, Melissa Pruitt Rodrigue and her husband Aaron Rodrigue, Heath Pruitt, Nicholas Croney, and Austin Solon; one great-grandson, Brek Rodrigue; and two great-granddaughters, Mills Rodrigue and Blayke Rodrigue.

The family requests that memorials may be made to Centex Parkinson Support Group, 4221 Warwick Lane, Bryan, Texas 77802, or the Nesbitt Cemetery Association, 120 South Anderson Street, Bremond, TX 76629.