Obituary of Arlene L. Prather

Arlene L. Prather. 95, of Iowa City, died Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at the Briarwood Healthcare Center in Iowa City. Funeral services will be held 11am Monday, January 27, 2020, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service, with burial to follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services at the funeral home. Memorial donations can be made in her memory to Essence of Life Hospice. To share a thought, memory or condolence with Arlene’s family please visit the funeral home website @ www.gayandciha.com. Arlene LaVonne Miller was born December 20, 1924, in Ottumwa, Iowa, the daughter of Glenn and Bertha (Brown) Miller. She graduated from Freemont High School in Freemont, Iowa. On December 28, 1941, she married Kenneth I. Prather in Lancaster, MO. The couple and their family made their home in Oskaloosa until moving to Iowa City in 1960. Here she was busy raising her family but also was a media assistant at three different elementary schools in the Iowa City district, Horace Mann, Longfellow, and Grant Wood. She had worked at Owens Brush before she started her long career at the schools. Her family includes her children, Charlene Brummel, Kenneth “Gene” Prather (Wanda), Pamela Prather, and Patricia Van Hoever (David); 10 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Kenneth, son-in-law, Ken Brummel; a brother, Harold Miller, and her sister Lois Alderman.