Brenda Lee Pruitt, daughter of the late Robert Dean Fotsch and Effie Jane Metropolis, was born on December 19, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, and departed this life on October 9, 2021, at St. Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri, at the age of 69 years.

Mrs. Pruitt was a cosmetologist, co-owner of Mike’s Body Shop in Bloomfield, and she was a former legal secretary for the Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. Brenda had attended Bernie and Bloomfield Churches of Christ. She was a member of the Bloomfield Women’s Club, Bloomfield Lions Club, and Sassy Stitchers, and she was a resident of Bloomfield.

On February 7, 1970, in Libertyville, Illinois, she was united in marriage to Michael Wayne Pruitt. Mr. Pruitt preceded her in death on January 4, 2020.

She is survived by two daughters, Alysia Pruitt-Gregg and husband Bradley of Columbia, Tennessee, and Melinda Pruitt of Bloomfield, Missouri; by two brothers, Paul Fotsch and wife Laurie of Washington, Illinois, and Dan Fotsch and wife Anita of Zionsville, Indiana; by her sister, Janet Gilbert and husband Richard of Cantonment, Florida; by her sister-in-law, Anita Duba of Bloomfield, Missouri; by four grandchildren, Esther Gregg, Alexis Gregg, Nicodemus Gregg, and Effigenia Gregg; and by eleven nieces and nephews, Joshua Fotsch, Krystal Crecelius, Bradley Fotsch, Erica Fotsch, Kevin Fotsch, Christy Sindle, Melody Patrick, Kassia Raines, Holly Gilbert, Dillon Rickman, and Hailey Keeney.

Other than by her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Dean Fotsch.