Edna Edith Pruitt Sweat

March 30, 1927 - February 1, 2021

Edna Edith Pruitt Sweat Mrs. Edna Edith Pruitt Sweat, 93, of Hawthorne, Florida, died Monday, February 1, 2021 in the care of Hospice of Marion County, Cate’s House, following a long illness. Mrs. Sweat was born in Adel, Georgia on March 30, 1927 to the late Earnest Wiley and Ruby Pruitt. As a young lady she moved to Jacksonville, Florida and soon after married Mr. Walter Horace Sweat, to whom she was married for 52 years until his death in 2000. She was a longtime supervisor for the Credit Bureau of Jacksonville until her retirement in 1983, along the same time that she became a full time resident of Hawthorne. Mrs. Sweat was a member of the Jacksonville Baptist Temple and had attended the Island Grove Baptist Church. She enjoyed cooking, sewing and travelling. Mrs. Sweat was preceded in death by 3 sister and 3 brothers. She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth S. Dowdy and Elaine Kersch, both of Hawthorne; by one sister, Betty Croft, of Madison, Ga., and by numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, February 5, 2021 at 2:00 P. M., in the Chapel of Williams-Thomas Funeral Home Hawthorne, 301 South at Lake Avenue. Interment will follow in Antioch Cemetery. The family will receive friends prior to the service, beginning at 12:30.