- Date Of Death: August 3, 2009
- State: Alabama
Beulah Bessie “Boots” Burgess Prigmore
Boots Prigmore, age 85, passed away at her home in Trussville, Alabama on Monday, August 3, 2009. After several years of living with Parkinson’s disease, Boots is now free of pain and discomfort and is resting in the arms of her Lord and Savior in Heaven.
Boots was born on June 5, 1924 in Coalfield, Tennessee, the daughter of Sib Elbert and Ethel Lane Burgess. She had fourteen brothers and sisters. In the first grade, she “picked out” Edwin Shelton Prigmore as the young man she wanted as her sweetheart. The two fell in love as teenagers and were married on March 2, 1943 and were happily married for sixty-six years. Their devotion to one another and their dedication to their family was an inspiration to all who knew them. Boots and Shelton raised five children in Loudon, Tennessee and in Alabama where they moved in 1965. Boots was a homemaker for most of her life. After her youngest child was in junior high school, she worked several years as a receptionist for Dr. Robert Lumpkin, a dentist in Irondale, Alabama. She was a volunteer for many programs throughout her life, setting an example of the importance of service to others. She visited patients for many years at the Trussville Nursing Home, taught 5-year old Sunday School at the First Baptist Church of Trussville for twenty-five years, and taught an adult Sunday School class while a member of the First Baptist Church of Loudon. She was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Trussville and faithfully attended church until her health declined. She loved the Lord with all her heart, and she followed His teachings as a Christian wife and mother. Boots desired above all else that her family believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and to attend church.
