Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Ralph L., 1981 

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RALPH LEE PORTER

   NEWSOMS - Ralph L. Porter, 73, was held Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 11 a.m. in the 
Newsoms Baptist Church by the Rev. Kenneth Williams.  Burial was in Hollywood 
Cemetery, Newsoms.  McDowell Funeral Home, Boykins, was in charge.

   At time of his death, he was the chairman of the Southampton A.S.C.S. 
county committee, where he served three terms.  He was a member of the board 
of directors of the Bank of Franklin, where he had served ten years and was a 
member of the Governor’s Peanut Commission; and a member of the Valley Pines 
country club, where he had served on the board of directors four years.  He 
was a charter member of the Newsoms Ruritan Club, where he had served as 
president and secretary-treasurer.  He was a member of the Franklin-
Southampton Chamber of Commerce for five years.

   During World War II he worked for the Southampton Co. extension service, 
supervising German prisoners of war.  He had also served three years as 
chairman of the board of directors of the Virginia Peanut and Hog Growers 
Association.  He had served on the Southampton County board of supervisors for 
twelve years and on the planning commission for ten years, where he had served 
as its chairman. For eighteen years he was A.S.C.S. community committeeman.

   Others survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Betsy Porter Brantley of Franklin, a 
son, John Ralph Porter of Newsoms; one granddaughter and one grandson; and a 
nephew, R. Samuel Drake of Newsoms.


Ralph Lee PORTER, civic leader, 
d. 13 Dec 1981, age 73, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 15 Dec 1981, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 24, 1981, p. 19 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 


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