Stephen R. "Dick" Pratt, 89, retired Circuit Judge of Clay County, passed away June 16, 2008, at St. Luke's Hospital. Funeral services at D.W. Newcomer's White Chapel, 6600 N. Antioch Road, Gladstone, MO 64119, at 1 p.m., Friday, June 20, 2008. Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at the chapel. Private burial at Crown Hill Masonic Cemetery, Excelsior Springs, Mo. It is requested that no flowers, but rather memorials be sent to the Stephen R. and Dorothy M. Pratt Scholarship Fund at UMKC Conservatory of Music, 1055 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. He was born November 2, 1918, the son of Stephen R. and Emma J. Pratt. He graduated from North Kansas City High School in 1936, the University of Warrensburg (then known as CMSTC) 1941, and the University of Kansas City Law School in 1950. He practiced law in North Kansas City with Ward Dorsey, Richard Watson and John Brannon until 1967. He was Clay County Prosecuting Attorney, 1st District Councilman in Kansas City North prior to ascending to the bench in 1967. He retired in 1988. He married Dorothy May Woods Short May 3, 1957. He was member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Clay County Bar Association (past president) and the Kansas City Bar Association (honorary member). He was also licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court. He was a member of the American Legion Post 626, the VFW Post 560, the First Baptist Church of North Kansas City, the Ararat Shrine, Scottish Rite, Liberty York Rite Bodies, and Alpha Masonic Blue Lodge, NKC. . all of which he was a 50-year member. Also, a member of the William C. Corum Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and a direct descendant of the Mayflower. He was a charter member and past president of the North Kansas City Breakfast Club and other civic organizations. He is survived by a stepson, David W. Short, two cousins, and by good friends Lowell and Alpha Fairchild, Frank and Suzanne Smith, and by dog Pupsie.