Marie Prewett

BENTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Marie Maxine Prewett of Benton will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton. The Rev. Normand Varone will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens at Morley, Mo.

Friends may call at the chapel from 5 to 8 p.m. today.

Prewett, 80, died Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 10, 1921, in Los Angeles, Calif., daughter of Walter Morris and Cornelia Anna Mullenstead Wainwright. She and James E. Prewett were married Nov. 1, 1968. He died Aug. 3, 1989.

Prewett had been cafeteria manager with J.J. Newberry and Co.

Survivors include a son, Ronnie McKay of Bellflower, Calif.; a daughter, Connie Clark of Benton; a grandchild; and a great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by two brothers.