Funeral service for SFC (Retired) Eddie Dean Pruden will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday, December 31, 2015 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Melvin Smith officiating.

Burial with full military honors will follow in Post Cemetery, Fort Sill.

Sergeant Pruden passed away Friday, December 25, 2015 in a Lawton hospital. He was born July 4, 1947 in Shaw, Mississippi to Roland Ellis and Mattie Dee Pruden. He married Kathleen A. Tepfer on November 17, 1967 in Belleville, Illinois.

He served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and his awards include the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with palm, two overseas service bars, Bronze Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal (3rd award), Rifle M16 Expert and the Driver Badge. Following his retirement from the army he worked at the Fort Sill Commissary for 15 years.

He was an active member of Celebration Church of Lawton and the American Legion. He loved to read and fish but more than anything he loved to spend time with his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife, of the home; three children, Sandra Dee Carl and husband Richard, Central High, Oklahoma, David Allen Pruden, Norman, Oklahoma and Patrick Dean Pruden and wife Dawn, Wichita, Kansas; five grandchildren, LCPL Tyler Allen Carl and wife Desiree, Okinawa, Brittany Ann Pruden, Wichita Falls, Texas, Megan Renee Carl, Central High, Collin Dean Pruden, Wichita, Kansas and Caitlyn Sierra Carl, Central High.

His mother and father preceded him in death.