Obituaries: Willie Porter, Sabine Parish P-636 Source: Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 9, 1973 Submitted by: Ruth Estess r.estess@worldnet.att.net ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Sabine Index - August 9, 1973 Willie Porter Willie D. Porter, 78, died Monday in an automobile accident. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. yesterday in the Mount Carmel Baptist Church with the Rev. Earl Marr and the Rev. Phillip Tisdale officiating. Burial was in the Fisher Cemetery under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral Home. Survivors include his widow; two half-brothers, Floyd Bissell of Benson and Howard Bissell of Mansfield; three half-sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Hughes and Mrs. Zola Evans, both of Benson and Mrs. Buna Hatcher of Mansfield. Pallbearers were Buster Bissell, E. R. Anderson, Stanley Brandon, J. B. Ricks, Billy Roy Skinner and Bill Russell Jr.