Delores Aline Prater A memorial service for Mrs. Delores Aline Prater, 85, of Marshall will be held at a later date in California. Mrs. Prater passed away October 10, 2013 in Dallas. Delores was born in Pitcher, Oklahoma on January 16, 1928 to James Dixon and Beatrice White Dixon. She was a homemaker. She is survived by her four children, Penny M. Wright of Marshall, Joseph E. Prater, Jr. and Frederick Alan Prater, both of California, and James F. Prater of Arkansas. Also surviving Mrs. Prater are thirteen grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph E. Prater, Sr.