Obit of Miss Nettie Julia PORTER (b.1860 d.1929) Blue Earth Co., MN

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Source #1: Newspaper
Mankato Free Press; 6 April 1929
Page 4: Column 1; Reads as follows:

NETTIE PORTER DIES
ILL MANY MONTHS

Was Former Mankato Business Woman And Member Of Pioneer 
Family

Miss Nettie Julia Porter, former Mankato business woman and 
member of a pioneer Minnesota family, died at 1:30 o'clock 
this morning at her apartment at 505 South Broad street after 
an illness of many months from arthritis and heart 
complications.

Her niece Marie Pfeffer Woerz of Los Angeles, Cal. and a 
nurse were at her bedside when she passed away.

Miss Porter was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Minor [Miner] 
Porter both deceased, who were pioneer hotel keepers of Blue 
Earth county.  She was born at the Minneopa Park hotel at 
South Bend [MN] and has been a resident of Mankato nearly all 
her life, having attended local schools here and 
supplementing her education with a few years at a private 
school at Fox Lake, Wis.

She was a partner with Miss Nellie E. Pay in the Porter and 
Pay art and gift shop, from which they retired four years ago 
after thirty years of business.  Contacts with pioneer life 
began for Miss Porter in childhood at the South Bend hotel 
which was built by Minor [Miner] Porter from lumber hauled by 
team from St. Paul.  Later her father ran the Minneopa house 
at Mankato from which the Minneopa garage, corner of Cherry 
and Second streets, takes its name.  Another early-day hotel 
of which Minor [Miner] Porter was proprietor was the 
Merchants, located at the former Mankato State Bank site.

Surviving relatives are Mrs. D. D. Williams and family, 
cousins; Mrs. Frank Clague, a cousin at Redwood Falls [MN]; 
and a niece Mrs. R. C. Woerz (Marie Pfeffer) of Los Angeles.  
One sister, Mrs. Ada Pfeffer, passed away four years ago.

Miss Porter was a life-long member of St. John's Episcopal 
church.  Funeral services will be held at the church of which 
she was a parishioner at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow.  Bishop 
McElwain of Minneapolis will officiate and interment will be 
at the family plot in Glenwood cemetery [Mankato, MN].

Pall bearers will be E. M. Zuel, Dr. M. B. Wood, Dr. William 
Standish, George Pond, Henry Spicer, and F. L. Searing.

[Information in brackets added by the transcriber Ð William 
W. Porter on 2-8-2001]


Source #2: Newspaper
Mankato Free Press; 9 April 1929
Page 17: Column 5; Reads as follows:

Funeral Services For Miss Porter

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at St. Johns 
Episcopal church for Miss Nettie Porter, member of a pioneer 
Minnesota family, and former Mankato business woman who 
passed away at 1:30 o'clock Friday morning at her apartment 
at 505 South Broad street, following an illness of many 
months.

Bishop McElwain of Minneapolis read the services at 4:40 P.M. 
in the well filled church of which the deceased was a member.  
There was music by the church choir of whom Mrs. Fred 
Manderfeld, Richard Wood, and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Gerlach are 
members.  Mrs. Lea Wood accompanied the singers.

Relatives and friends from out of town who attended the 
funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clague of Redwood Falls 
[MN], the latter a cousin of Miss Porter; Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Williams of Milwaukee, and Bert Williams of Markeson, Wis., 
also cousins of the deceased; Mr. Winters of Ackley, Ia., the 
Misses Harriet and Althea Fifield of Minneapolis, Mr. and 
Mrs. R. C. Woerz (Marie Pfeffer) of Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. 
Harry Pfeffer and daughter and Mrs. Frank Pfeffer of Blue 
Earth [MN].  Mrs. Beecher Ward of Fairmont [MN].

The pall bearers were E. M. Zuel, Dr. William Standish, Dr. 
M. B. Wood, George Pond, Henry Spicer and F. L. Searing.

Interment took place in the family plot at Glenwood cemetery 
[Mankato, MN].

[Information in brackets added by the transcriber Ð William 
W. Porter on 2-8-2001]