ADA- Services for Fay LaFern Gay Pratz, 89, of Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Thursday, August 16, 2007 at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Revs. Robert Ware, Darryl DeBorde and Carl Hayes will officiate. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery in Oklahoma City.

Mrs. Pratz died Monday, August 13, 2007. She was born in Kingman, Arkansas, on July 5, 1918 to Enoch and Grace Andrews Gay. She graduated from Morris high school in Morris, Oklahoma, in 1930.

She married Charlie Pratz on September 14, 1949 in St. Petersburg, Florida. He preceded her in death on February 5, 2000. They moved to Oklahoma City in 1949 and lived there until 1962. While there she was an active member of Putnam City Baptist Church. In 1962, they moved to Tulsa and opened up Charlie's Donut Shop and where she was an active member of White City Baptist Church. In 1996, she and Charlie moved to Ada to be closer to their daughter and son-in-law. In Ada, she was a member of Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Survivors include her daughter, Sandy Sanford, Ada; three grandchildren, Larry Sanford and wife Jean, Edmond, DeeAnn Schroyer and husband Richard, Shawnee, and Judy Sanford, Dallas; five great grandchildren, Shannon Schoonover and husband Marc, Oklahoma City, Kelly Dies, Oklahoma City, Haley Dies, Oklahoma City, and Sarah Brown and husband Matthew, Chicago, Ill, and Lacey Sanford, Stillwater; two great-great grandchildren, Aston and Collin Schoonover, Oklahoma City; two step-great grandchildren, Lance Schroyer and wife Andrea, Kiefer, OK and Jill Zellmer and husband Doug, Alaska; and four step-great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her best friend and husband, Charlie, her beloved son-in-law, Dean Sanford, twin brother, Fred, brothers Chris and Boley Gay and sister, Glaydce O'Neal.
Pallbearers will be Jack Martin, Billy Ringwald, Glenn McKinley, Ronnie Bates, Bobby Nester and Ken Hancock.
Honorary bearers will be Dean Rinehart, Wesley Rinehart, Leslie Rinehart and Thurman Rinehart.