Sharon M. Pritts

November 7, 1937 - October 24, 2020

Sharon M. Pritts, 82 of Kearney passed away Saturday, October 24, 2020 at Mount Carmel Home in Kearney. Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at Guide Rock Cemetery in Guide Rock, NE. Memorials are suggested to Mount Carmel Home. Condolences may be shared online at www.osrfh.com. Services are entrusted to O'Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral and Cremation Services. Sharon was born November 7, 1937 in Ainsworth, NE to Charles and Verna (Pate) Crawford. She grew up in Guide Rock and graduated from Red Cloud High School. Sharon was united in marriage to Duane Pritts on February 13, 1954 in Guide Rock. To this union five children were born, three girls and two boys. The couple made their home on a farm in Webster County before moving to the Giltner and Trumbull area. In the 1960’s they moved their family to Shelton and then to Gibbon. In their retirement years, they moved to Kearney where Sharon worked at Cambridge Court, Hilltop Mall and Buffalo Motel in Kearney. Later due to declining health the couple made their home at Prairie View Gardens assisted living facility in Kearney. Sharon loved to take care of her family, whether it was making a quilt, jelly and bread or pickles. Left to cherish her memory are her daughters, Deb Mortensen and husband, Terry of Cheyenne, WY, and Barb Bickford and husband, Ray of Kearney; daughter-in-law, Jackie Pritts-Lewis and husband Dave of Kearney; eight grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; two sisters; two brothers; three sisters-in-law; and numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family and friends. Sharon was preceded in death by her husband; parents; step Pops, Vernon R; two sons, Ronald and Tim; a daughter, Linda; brother, Jerry Crawford; sister, Pat Higby; brother-in-law, Kenny Bailey; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Kenneth and Rossanna Pritts. Sharon’s family would like to thank her Mount Carmel family and the hospice workers that helped care for her in those last few days.