Life
Prather was born on June 4, 1923, in Lapeer, Michigan, to Victor Prather Sr. and Gladys May Furse. He attended Tufts College in 1941, and became part of the V-12 program there from 1943 to 1945. He graduated from Tufts in 1945 and then attended Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating there in 1952.
In 1954, Prather rejoined the United States Navy. He worked as a surgeon aboard the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La near Morocco until 1957, when he returned to the United States. He then completed courses in aviation medicine and served in Pensacola, Florida from 1957 to 1958, and then in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1959 to 1960.
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