Jennifer Pritchard (Lebanon)'s Obituary
Jennifer Renee Pritchard, daughter of Mike and Dorothy Ann Jennings Pritchard, was born July 11, 1988, in Columbia, Missouri. She departed this life Sunday, July 16, 2017, at the University of Missouri Medical Center, in Columbia, Missouri, at the age of twenty-nine years, and five days.
She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Ralph and Dorothy Jennings.
Jennifer is survived by her parents, Mike Pritchard, and his wife, Kim, of Richland, Missouri, and Ann Hendrix, and her husband, Alan, of Fayette, Missouri; a brother, Michael Pritchard, Jr., of Lebanon, Missouri; three sisters, Carrie Daniels, of Fayette, Missouri, Tina Milligan, of California, Missouri, and Tiffany Sawyer, of Boonville, Missouri; a number of nieces and nephews; her paternal grandparents, Charles and Georgia Pritchard, of Richland, Missouri; as well as a host of other relatives and friends.
She was born in Columbia, Missouri, but was raised in the Richland and Bolivar communities. She graduated from Bolivar High School in the Class of 2007. She continued to make her home in Bolivar and was a volunteer at the YMCA. She also was a greeter at the Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar and did office work where she lived.
Jennifer was a member of First Baptist Church in Bolivar. Her faith was very important to her throughout the years. She was very generous and sensitive to the needs of others. She had grown her hair long and donated her hair to the Locks of Love program.
She enjoyed working on her computer, doing puzzles and computer games. She particularly loved babies and liked reading to younger kids. She was very loving, beautiful and honest with a pure smile, and was graceful with her lot in life.
Jennifer was a loving daughter, sister, aunt, granddaughter, and was a caring friend to many. She will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by all those who knew and loved her.
A memorial has been established to the Shriners and may be left at Holman-Howe Funeral Home.
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