June 1, 1933 - June 16, 2018 James Gross “Jim” Prator, 85, of Picayune, Mississippi, died on June 16, 2018. He had been a resident of Picayune for 49 years.
Jim was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 1, 1933, to Lillian Gross and Theophilus Mangum Prator. He attended schools in New Orleans and went on to LSU at Baton Rouge for college, where he met his bride, Lynne Clare Abadie. They were married in New Orleans in 1955, and Jim graduated later that year from Tulane University with a bachelors degree in physics and math.
Jim had three…