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    Reginald W. Prentice of MA
    By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
    Summer 2001 and Revised 26 Feb 2006
    Update of 14 May 2004: The 1930 census for New Haven, New Haven Co., CT dentifies Reginald W. Prentice as the son of Jessie Prentice, b. c. 1885, MA, and his wife, Ethel, b. c. 1908, MA.

    1. Reginald W. Prentice was b. 28 Jul 1923 in MA and d. 24 Dec 1990 (per SSDI). He m. Cora H. Richards who was b. c. 1925 and d. c. 25 Mar 1999. Her obituary in the Springfield Union-News contains the following information:

      Cora H. (Richards) Prentice, 74, 252 Crystal Lake Road, Tolland, CT, a former Springfield, Mass., resident and a long-time resident of this area, died Tuesday at Rockville General Hospital, Rockville. She was a retired restaurant manager for Howard Johnson's of Vernon. She was born in Palmer, MA and was a member of the Tolland Congregational Church.

      She left a son, Arthur D. Supernor of Tolland, and a brother, Clarence Richards of Harpswell, Maine. She also left 7 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

      Undertaker: Byron's Allen Street Funeral Home, in Springfield. Burial at Hillcrest Park Cemetery, in Springfield.

    It may be that the son identified, Arthur D. Supernor, was a son of a prior marriage. She may also have had other children who predeceased her.

    Who are Jessie Prentice's Parents?

    Although just a guess at this point, Jessie Prentice (Reginald's father) might be a son of Thomas M. Prentice, b. c. 1855, CT, who appears in that same 1930 New Haven, CT census, widower Also shown in Thomas' household is his son, Ellsworth Prentice, b. c. 1887, NY, and Ellsworth's wife, Louise C., b. c. 1888, CT. Thomas is the son of Daniel M. Prentice of Norwich, CT, about whom we have an article in our Winter 2002 Prentice Newsletter.

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