Patricia Ann Pryor

MS. PATRICIA ANN PRYOR QUIETLY TRANSITIONED TO ETERNAL LIFE WITH OUR LORD ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023. SHE WAS THE FIFTH CHILD OF SIX, BORN ON NOVEMBER 21, 1971, TO THE LATE OTIS PRYOR AND JO ANN NELSON OF TEXARKANA TX. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN HER DEATH BY HER PARENTS, STEPFATHER REECE NELSON, GRANDPARENTS; GEORGE LOLLIS AND JO ELLA JOHNSON AND HER BABY SISTER CHANEIKIA SMITH.

PATRICIA ACCEPTED CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AT NEW ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PASTOR BLACK. SHE BECAME A MEMBER OF GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS.

PATRICIA WAS A LOVING MOTHER, DAUGHTER, SISTER, AUNT AND A DEVOTED FRIEND. SHE ATTENDED PINE BLUFF HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADUATED IN 1990.

SHE LOVED HER ZEBRA FAMILY. SHE WENT ON TO PURSUE HER EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF, WHERE SHE OBTAINED HER BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN 2015. PATRICIA WORKED SEVERAL JOBS, BEFORE SHE FOUND ONE THAT SUITED HER; SHE WORKED AT ARCELOR MITTAL FORMERLY KNOWN AS TREFIELDARBED FOR 15 YEARS UNTIL HER HEALTH FAILED HER, BUT SHE WAS DETERMINED TO KEEP GOING;

SOON AFTER SHE BECAME AN EMPLOYEE OF WAL-MART FOR 10 YEARS WHERE SHE WORKED UNTIL HER TIMELY DEMISE.

PATRICIA LEAVES TO CHERISH HER UNFORGETTABLE MEMORIES, HER THREE LOVING AND CARING CHILDREN: 2 DAUGHTERS; JASMINE PRYOR OF SHERWOOD ARKANSAS, JADA PRYOR OF PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS AND A SON CHRISTOPHER PRYOR OF PINE BLUFF ARKANSAS, A GRAND-DAUGHTER WHOM SHE CALLED "HER FAVORITE GRANDDAUGHTER", JINIYA FARMER; 5 SISTERS SAMANTHA CRISS (TONY) OF LITTLE ROCK, AR, DONNA OLIVER OF PINE BLUFF, AR, BARBARA PRYOR OF LITTLE ROCK, AR, BEVERLY PRYOR OF TEXARKANA TX AND ORETHA PRYOR OF TEXARKANA TX AND 1 BROTHER VERTIS WHITE OF TEXARKANA TX AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS COUSINS, FRIENDS, AND A SPECIAL COUSIN LOUZETTA "NANNIE" LEWIS.

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