FORT LAUDERDALE -- Mrs. Arlene Elizabeth Prankas of Fort Lauderdale died of respiratory failure Tuesday (Aug. 16, 2005) in Fort Lauderdale. She was 92.

She was born Feb. 8, 1913, in Duluth, Minn., and moved to Winter Haven in 1997, but recently returned to Fort Lauderdale. She was a homemaker.

Mrs. Prankas is survived by her sons, Keith J. Paulson, Wilton Manors, Dennis G. Paulson, Winter Haven, and Gregory Paulson, Fort Lauderdale; sister, Evelyn O'Connell, Duluth, Minn.; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Oak Ridge Funeral Care.