Mr. Richard Eugene "Gene" Prisock Sr., born December 17, 1934 in Aliceville, Alabama, passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2020 of natural causes at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, AL. He was 85 years old.
Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at Dogwood Chapel, 200 5th Street NE in Aliceville with Tommy Blakney delivering the eulogy. Burial will follow in Magnolia Memorial Gardens with Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Mask are required due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
Gene was born, the eldest of six children, in Aliceville, AL, to Delma Columbus and Addie Mae Prisock. Gene came out of the womb with a fishing pole in one hand and a net in the other. To say "Fishing was his passion" is like saying the sun rises in the East. A truer statement has never been made. He enjoyed growing up in Aliceville where he kindled that passion from the start. The abundance of naturally "good" fishing holes, which he frequented with every opportunity he had, made skipping school a temptation. He would walk miles, down country roads, to go fishing. It was his heaven.
Gene attended Aliceville High School and played on the Yellow Jackets football team where he earned the nickname "Plowstock". After leaving high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served two years as a Military Police officer. He met and married the "love of his life", Edna Pate before he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and began his journey around the world. Throughout his Air Force career, he was stationed in Tonapah, NV, Okinawa, Japan, Miami, FL, Honolulu, HI and Galena, Alaska, with his wife and five children in tow. By far, his favorite place was Alaska, where he could hunt and fish to his heart's delight.
Gene was a Vietnam veteran and retired after serving 26 years in the Army/Air Force. After a stint in Saudi Arabia with McDonnell Douglas, Gene decided there was no place like home (where everyone knew his name) and he and Edna returned to Aliceville in 2000 where he later served as the Airport Manager at George Downer Field for 19 years.
Gene was a man of many interests and passions. Of course, Fishing was his lifelong obsession, which was fortunate for him because of his natural ability to tell tales, larger than life and with great animation which provided his family and friends and anyone who would listen, countless hours of entertainment. His other interests included building and flying model airplanes, country and western and bluegrass music, Bass fishing, playing dominoes, flying his plane, Alabama football, Jugg fishing, hunting, motorcycle riding, buying and trading cars, Crappie and Brimm fishing, spending time with his family, but his favorite was just fishing, early in the morning, with a pole in his hands on a quiet river.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Delma and Addie Mae Prisock, his sister Tiny Anderson and his brother Tom Prisock. He is survived by his wife, Edna (Pate) Prisock, sisters Juanita Beasley (Marlin), and Debbie Palarca, brother Mack Prisock, four daughters, Kathy Warson, Sandra Soong (Al), Sheila Prisock, and Karmen Bittick (Mark), one son, Rick Prisock, Jr and 12 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, 1 great, great grandchild and his domino's family, fishing pals and airport buddies.

Pallbearers will be Mack Prisock, Al Soong, Dexter Hester, Tony Covington, Mark Bittick and Chris Prisock.
Honorary Pallbearers are Rick Prisock and David Gentry.

In lieu of flowers the family requests contributions be made to the Wounded Warrior Project in his memory.