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Children:<br>
 
Children:<br>
 
Bennett Wallace Prestridge<br>
 
Bennett Wallace Prestridge<br>
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Zachary Bronson<br>
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Step-children from wife's previous marriage:<br>
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Howard Zachary Bronson<br>
 
Dana Bronson<br>
 
Dana Bronson<br>
 
Kathryn Bronson<br>
 
Kathryn Bronson<br>
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Prestridge was elected president of the Bossier Jaycees in 1968, Holiday in Dixie in 1981, and the Bossier Chamber of Commerce in 1986. He was a founding board member of The Rutherford House in Shreveport, a board member of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, also in Shreveport, the Red River Revel, and the Louisiana Association for the Blind.<ref name=obit/>
 
Prestridge was elected president of the Bossier Jaycees in 1968, Holiday in Dixie in 1981, and the Bossier Chamber of Commerce in 1986. He was a founding board member of The Rutherford House in Shreveport, a board member of the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum, also in Shreveport, the Red River Revel, and the Louisiana Association for the Blind.<ref name=obit/>
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Prestridge died of a brief illness at the age of eighty-three. A memorial service was held on February 10, 2018, at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Shreveport, of which he had been a long-term member. His ashes were spread in the cathedral garden prior to the service. His survivors include his wife of forty-nine years, the former Kathryn Sinclair (born May 6, 1937); sons, Bennett Wallace Prestridge and Zachary Bronson and wife, Sharon; daughters, Dana Bronson, formerly Dana Wood, and Kathryn Bronson; son-in-law Harlan Wood, and four grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
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Prestridge died of a brief illness at the age of eighty-three. A memorial service was held on February 10, 2018, at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Shreveport, of which he had been a long-term member. His ashes were spread in the cathedral garden prior to the service. His survivors include his wife of forty-nine years, the former Kathryn Sinclair (born May 6, 1937), and their son, Bennett Wallace Prestridge. His three step-children from Mrs. Prestridge's previous marriage to William Howard Bronson, Jr. (born 1936), the former publisher of ''The Shreveport Times'': Howard Zachary Bronson and wife, Sharon, of Mobile, [[Alabama]], Dana Bronson, formerly married to Harlan Wood, and Kathryn Bronson, and four grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>
    
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