WILLIAM PRUYS

William G. "Bill" Pruys, 86, a farmer north of Havre, died Monday Feb. 10, 2003, at a Great Falls hospital of natural causes.

A vigil will be 7 p.m. Thursday at St. Jude Catholic Church. A funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Friday at St. Jude with Fr. Robert D. Grosch officiating. There will be a fellowship luncheon sponsored by the Knights of Columbus at the St. Jude Parish Center following the funeral Mass. Burial will follow the luncheon

at the Cottonwood Cemetery.

Bill was born Sept. 13, 1916, to Theodore and Frances (Gerhardt) Pruys north of Havre on the family homestead, where he

remained for...