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Zelma Lee Pritchett, Pageant Winner And Volunteer, 85

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Zelma Lee Pritchett Pageant Winner, Volunteer

Zelma Lee Pritchett, 85, who won the Ms. Senior Maryland pageant in
1985 and volunteered with many organizations, died of a pulmonary
embolism December 23 [2007] at Inova Alexandria [Virginia] Hospital
after a fall. She had lived with her son in Woodbridge [Virginia]
since 2006.

Mrs. Pritchett moved to Fort Washington [Maryland] from her native
West Virginia in 1973 and worked for several years as a sales clerk at
the Hecht's store at Iverson Mall in Prince George's County
[Maryland]. She also demonstrated product samples at grocery stores.

In 1985, she won the Ms. Senior Maryland pageant and was named fourth
runner-up in the Ms. Senior America pageant the same year. For many
years, she continued to work as a volunteer with the pageant.

She was a member of a Prince George's County senior center and
volunteered with several seniors' rights advocacy boards and other
community groups. She was also a suicide hotline volunteer and
Democratic Party activist and volunteer.

She had been a member of Greater Morningstar Apostolic Ministries in
Upper Marlboro [Maryland] since 1973.

Mrs. Pritchett was born in Gary, West Virginia, and graduated from
beauty college in Chicago [Illinois]. She occasionally worked as a
waitress, cook and nightclub singer in Chicago.

Her husband of 42 years, Ulysses Dickerson Pritchett, died in 1979.

Two children, Cinderella Pritchett and Ulysses "Lonnie" Pritchett,
died in infancy.

Survivors include nine children, Carolyn Rochelle Hobbs of Haverhill,
Massachusetts, Harold Landon Pritchett of Somerville, New Jersey,
Diane Leondra Prucnal of Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, William
Anthony Pritchett of Woodbridge, Kathy Jacqueline Dade of Puyallup,
Washington, Vivian Lenora Chamberlain of Suitland [Maryland], Gerald
Ulysses Pritchett of Lorton [Virginia], Garry Robert Pritchett of
Bowie [Maryland] and Christopher Wade Byrd of Odenton [Maryland]; four
brothers; a sister; 24 grandchildren; and 28 great-grandchildren.

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Matt Schudel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR2008010602068.html

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