Pridemore's street is lined with American flags that he and a neighbor helped install. The flags, and his other civic work, are a way of saying thanks, Pridemore said. He served two terms as a councilman in Haltom City, was president of the Northeast Tarrant Chamber, and helped start Northeast Transportation Services, a nonprofit group that provides transportation for the elderly and the disabled. Sixty years after Pridemore graduated from a Depression- era high school that was built by the Works Progress Administration, he worked with Birdville's education foundation, drumming up support for Birdville High School, which recently opened. Pridemore tried to resign from the educational foundation when he became ill, but foundation members wouldn't let him quit.
Miracles can happen.