Barbara Pruitt-8-9-2024

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memorial page for 

Barbara A. Pruitt

January 19, 1961
~July 27, 2024

OBITUARY

SERVICE DETAILS

VISITATION- Friday 8-9-2024
Abundant Life Church of God
632 Colts Neck Rd.
Freehold, NJ 07728
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

FUNERAL SERVICE -Friday 8-9-2024
Abundant Life Church of God
632 Colts Neck Rd.
Freehold, NJ 07728
11:00 AM

INTERMENT
Glenwood Cemetery
Monmouth Rd.
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764

Barbara Ann Pruitt, 63, of Long Branch, New Jersey was born on January 19, 1961, in Greenville, North Carolina. She departed this life on Saturday, July 27, 2024, in Frederick, Maryland, where she lived the last 10 months of her life. She was the daughter of the late Jessie, Jr., and Sarah Jane Anderson.

Barbara, affectionately known to her friends as “Barb” and family named “Aunt Bah,” was raised in Tinton Falls, N.J, and attended Monmouth Regional high school. She was a loving mother, wife, and grandmother.

Barbara was a staff member at Monmouth Medical Center. She devoted 39 years of dedicated service to the Food Services’ Department from February 24, 1983, retiring after nearly 40 years on July 24, 2022. Barbara never met a stranger and always thought of others before herself. Her smile always lit up a room.

She was also predeceased by her husband, Ovester Pruitt, Jr., sister, Delone Anderson, uncles, Vernon Staton, Jr., Bishop Richard Worsley, Jr. (Doris), Curtis Cobbs, and Tony Lynn.

She leaves to cherish her precious memory, five siblings eldest to youngest: sister, Ethel Anderson (Milton), Greenville, N.C., brother, Kenneth Anderson, Sr. (Pamela), Edgewood, M.D., sister, Lezeila Anderson (Jimmy), Long Branch, N.J., brother, Jerome Anderson, (Stephanie), Neptune, N.J, sister, Jessie Mae Anderson, Long Branch, NJ; three children, Natasha Secka (Jim) of Frederick, MD, Jameka Pruitt of Frederick, MD, and a son, Ovester Pruitt, III (Juanita) of Howell, NJ; seven grandchildren Mia Pruitt, Jamir Pruitt, Sean Glasgow, Jamiya Pruitt, Willow Pruitt-Starks, Horaja Secka, and Joshua Elijah Young Prince Pruitt; special cousin, Frances “Nisey” Graham, along with a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and close friends.

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