Obit:  Ethel McKaskel Porter, 1961, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Karen Reaves Moss, 948 Vintage Drive, Kenner, LA 70065
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Ethel McKaskel Porter, Obit March 23, 1961, Enterprise News-American

Mrs. H. K. Porter To Be Buried Here Friday Morning

Mrs. Ethel McKaskel Porter of 3908 Coleridge St., Houston, Texas, died at 3:05
p.m. Tuesday at her home.  A native of Winn parish, she had resided in Houston
20 years.  She was a member of Rice Temple Baptist Church.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday, March 24, at the
Southern Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. W.L. Holcomb and Rev. R.H. Staples
officiating.  Burial will be in the Winnfield cemetery under direction of
Southern Funeral Home.

Survivors include her husband, H.K. Porter; a daughter, Mrs. Norvin D.
Nesmith, both of Houston; foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Allen,
Winnfield; sisters, Mrs. Ona Sikes, Houston, Mrs. Jack Beasley, Monroe;
brother, Carey McKaskle, Monroe; one grandson.

Mrs. Porter is also survived by the following aunts in Winnfield, Mrs. Eula
Peavy, Mrs. W. O. Averett, and Mrs. Walter Allen, also her foster mother, and
Mrs J.P. Durham of Shreveport.  She was the granddaughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. H.J. Perkins of Winn parish.


Relatives Attend Last Rites For Mrs. H.K. Porter Here, March 30, 1961, Winn
Parish Enterprise

A large number of out-of-town relatives attended the last rites for Mrs. H.K.
Porter, of Houston, Texas, held in Winnfield March 24 at the Southern Funeral
Home, with burial in the Winnfield cemetery.  Mrs. Porter died in Houston
March 21.

Acting as pallbearers were Welby Willis, Frank Shaw, Kelly Peterson, John T.
Porter, Hezziah Porter, and Gene Porter.


(Submitted by Karen Reaves Moss, 948 Vintage Drive, Kenner, LA 70065,
RosyRoja@aol.com)

The choir sang, "In the Garden," directed by Houston Gates.  Mrs. Reed Carson
sang the solo, "The Lord's Prayer."

Out-of-town relatives attending the last rites were:

Mrs. Minnie Petit, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Durham, Mrs. Eula Bl Mitchell, Mr. and
Mrs. Wayne Durham, Mr. and Mrs. Harris Durham os Shreveport; Mr. and Mrs. J.C.
Breaux of Baton Rouge; Mrs. Elsie Callahan, Mrs. Inez Willis, Mrs. I.W. Sikes,
Mr. and Mrs. Norwin Nesmith and son, Mrs. Dorothy Robinson of Houston, Texas;
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Marek of El Campo, Tex,; Mr. and Mrs. Perkin Sikes and
daughter of Pasadena, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. M.N. Ashcroft of Minden; Mrs. James
Sullivan of Shreveport.