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Mary M Prentiss
b.1920-08-02; d.2015-01-25; Jacksonville Beach, FL; Beaches Chapel
(contributed by Joe Sample on 2015-02-23)
In 1947, she was married to Darrell George Prentiss, who after a 21 year US Navy, attended South Eastern Bible College and became an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God Conference. Together they pastored the Exeter Assembly of God church in New Hampshire, as well as the Jacksonville Beach First Assembly and the Atlantic Beach Assembly churches in Florida. They received their initial Ministerial experience opening a closed church in Lexington Park, Maryland while still on active duty with the Navy. Mary's special area of ministry was offering an encouraging word and a helpful hand to residents of nursing homes. In her retirement years, she was a member of the Jacksonville Beaches Women's Club and the Beaches Area Historical Society. A favorite pastime was her long walks on the beach.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents; her loving husband, Darrell G. Prentiss, of 57 years; brothers: George T. Delves, Danny Delves, and David W. Delves; sisters: Anne Prentiss, Monica Walden, and Marjorie Buck.
Left to cherish her memory are her children: Nancy Ann Hicks and her husband Charles of Lake Junaluska, NC; Richard Darrell Prentiss and wife Shirley of Hawthorne, FL; Margo Rae Peterson and her husband Terry of Kingman, ME; five grandchildren: Randy, Wayne, David, Tony, and Mary An; and six great-grandchildren. She is survived by a sister Margaret (Madge) Reinertson of Miami, as well as many nieces and nephews of the Delves, Prentiss, Buck, Reinerston, and Walden families.
A Celebration of Life service will be held on Monday, February 2, 2015 at 2:00p.m. at the Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, the Jacksonville Beaches Area Chapel, located at 1701 Beach Boulevard, Jacksonville Beach, Florida 32250. The burial will be at the Magnolia Cemetery located at 1040 Kingsley Avenue, Orange Park, Florida 32073.
The family will receive friends at the Hardage-Giddens Jacksonville Beaches Chapel one hour prior (1:00 p.m.) to the Celebration of Life service.
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