Obituaries: Mrs. Wessie Porter, 1943, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 25, 1943 Winn Parish Enterprise

Death Claims Mrs. Wessie Porter Of Atlanta Feb. 20

Funeral services for Mrs. Wessie Porter, 58, justice of the peace of Ward Six,
Winn Parish, were held at the Atlanta Church Sunday afternoon, February 21,
1943, with the pastor, Rev. Ray Collum, and Rev. H. H. McBride, pastor of the
Winnfield Baptist Church, officiating.

Acting as pallbearers were H. A. Gresham, C. H. Ferguson, E. G. Ferguson, L.
Jennings, Guy McElroy, and Edward Shumake.

Mrs. Porter, who had been ill for several weeks, died at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Howard Sowers, in Winnfield Saturday.

Born November 22, 1884, in Lincoln Parish, the daughter of the late J. W. and
Rebecca Vance, Mrs. Porter moved to the Atlanta Community at the age of one
year.  She lived her entire life in this parish, where she taught school, and
later at the death of her father, succeeded him as justice of the peace of
that ward.

Mrs. Porter was a member of the Atlanta Baptist Church and was active in Home
Demonstration club work.

Surviving are her sister, Mrs. Howard Sowers of Winnfield; two nephews,
Captain Melvin Sowers, stationed in the South Pacific, and Ensign W. V. Sowers
of New York, N. Y.; and one niece, Miss Dorothy Jean Sowers, of Winnfield.