Ouachita-Union County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....PORTER , LOIS WADE  July 17, 2009
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News Star World - July 19, 2009
LOIS WADE PORTER 

Kilpatrick Funeral Home Farmerville, LA 

Lois Wade Porter, age 96, died after a short illness on Friday, July 17, 2009, 
at Northern Louisiana Medical Center in Ruston. Funeral services will be held 
on Monday, July 20 at 10:00 AM at Beulah Baptist Church in Farmerville under 
the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, officiated by Reverend William 
Cottrell and Reverend David Martin. Burial will follow at the Beulah Baptist 
Church Cemetery in Farmerville. Visitation will be held Sunday, July 19, from 
2:00 to 4:00 PM at Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Farmerville. Mrs. Porter was 
born November 29, 1912, in the Cherry Ridge Community near Farmerville, and 
she lived in that community for most of her life. She was a graduate of 
Spearsville High School and Louisiana Tech University. She was a resident of 
the Ruston Arbor and Terrace for eighteen months. She retired from the Union 
Parish School System after over thirty years having served as both a teacher 
and a principal. She had a great affection for elementary school children, 
especially first graders, and she retired from Marion High School after 
teaching first grade in Marion for nineteen years. In addition, she enjoyed 
oil painting and sharing that talent with others. Family was her passion and 
she enjoyed her grandchildren and nieces and nephews to the fullest extent 
possible. She truly loved the Lord and spent many years teaching Sunday School 
at Beulah Baptist Church. Mrs. Porter is survived by her daughter and husband, 
Shirley and Bobby Reagan of Ruston; two grandsons: Robert Todd Reagan and wife 
Betty of Dallas, TX, Dr. Brendan Wesley Reagan and wife Betsy of Nashville, 
TN; five great-grandchildren: Kyle Wesley, Jackson Robert, Wade Lawrence, 
Blake William, and Paige Elizabeth Reagan; one sister and husband, Thelma and 
John Doles; one sister-in-law Floy Wade; numerous nieces and nephews; and two 
special friends, Octavie Webb and Marjoree Williams. She is preceded in death 
by her husband William Wesley Porter, her parents Robert Brooks and Birdie 
Banks George Wade; four brothers: Lloyd, Dick, Kenneth, and Percy Wade; and 
one sister Shirley Faye Wade Elkins. Pallbearers will be her nephews, Dale 
Elkins, Bobby Elkins, Hez Elkins, Tom Elkins, Percy Wade, Jr., Thomas Wade, 
Wayne Wade, Donnie Wade, Barry Wade, Herbert Phillips, James Phillips, Roy 
Phillips, and Martin Phillips. Special appreciation is given to the staff at 
the Ruston Arbor and Terrace and Dr. Ben Grigsby. In lieu of flowers, planned 
memorials may be made to the Beulah Baptist Cemetery Fund or the Louisiana 
Baptist Children's Home. 

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