Funeral services set for Cobb County brothers killed in auto wreck
Funeral services for the two brothers killed Monday in an auto wreck in Roswell have been set for Sunday, Cobb County school officials say.
The service for James and Joe Pratt is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Piedmont Church, 570 Piedmont Rd., Marietta.
Read and sign the online guestbook for James and Joe Pratt
The brothers were headed to a dental appointment when their vehicle struck a school bus Monday afternoon. James Pratt, 18, was a senior at Lassiter High School. Joe Pratt, 14, was a freshman at the school. The brothers were in the school's ROTC program.
Four students at Fulton County’s Langston Hughes High School also died Monday when a vehicle they were in crashed into a tractor-trailer.
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