"Milwaukie--Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church, Salem, for Ada L. Porter, 101, a former resident of Salem, who died Thursday.
Private interment will be in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, under the direction of Virgil T. Golden mortuary, Salem.
She was born in West Liberty, Iowa. At 17 she began teaching school near Chicago and later taught in Chile for five years and in California, Washington, Oregon and River Forest, Ill. She received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York City.
In 1960 she retired and moved to Salem, where she was a Laubach literacy program teacher. She moved to a convalescent home in Milwaukie in 1971. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Salem and the American Association of University Women.
Survivors include her nieces, Alice Steiner, Metairie, La., and Joanne Pendleton, Chicago, Ill.; and nephews, Charles Poindexter, Portland, David Poindexter, Cresskill, N.J., and James Porter, Chicago, Ill.
Contributions may be made to the Ada L. Porter Memorial Fund at Willamette View Manor, 12705 S.E. River Road, Milwaukie 97222."
SJ Jul 22, 1987 2B:4
Private interment will be in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, under the direction of Virgil T. Golden mortuary, Salem.
She was born in West Liberty, Iowa. At 17 she began teaching school near Chicago and later taught in Chile for five years and in California, Washington, Oregon and River Forest, Ill. She received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York City.
In 1960 she retired and moved to Salem, where she was a Laubach literacy program teacher. She moved to a convalescent home in Milwaukie in 1971. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Salem and the American Association of University Women.
Survivors include her nieces, Alice Steiner, Metairie, La., and Joanne Pendleton, Chicago, Ill.; and nephews, Charles Poindexter, Portland, David Poindexter, Cresskill, N.J., and James Porter, Chicago, Ill.
Contributions may be made to the Ada L. Porter Memorial Fund at Willamette View Manor, 12705 S.E. River Road, Milwaukie 97222."
SJ Jul 22, 1987 2B:4
"Milwaukie--Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church, Salem, for Ada L. Porter, 101, a former resident of Salem, who died Thursday.
Private interment will be in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, under the direction of Virgil T. Golden mortuary, Salem.
She was born in West Liberty, Iowa. At 17 she began teaching school near Chicago and later taught in Chile for five years and in California, Washington, Oregon and River Forest, Ill. She received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York City.
In 1960 she retired and moved to Salem, where she was a Laubach literacy program teacher. She moved to a convalescent home in Milwaukie in 1971. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Salem and the American Association of University Women.
Survivors include her nieces, Alice Steiner, Metairie, La., and Joanne Pendleton, Chicago, Ill.; and nephews, Charles Poindexter, Portland, David Poindexter, Cresskill, N.J., and James Porter, Chicago, Ill.
Contributions may be made to the Ada L. Porter Memorial Fund at Willamette View Manor, 12705 S.E. River Road, Milwaukie 97222."
SJ Jul 22, 1987 2B:4
Private interment will be in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, under the direction of Virgil T. Golden mortuary, Salem.
She was born in West Liberty, Iowa. At 17 she began teaching school near Chicago and later taught in Chile for five years and in California, Washington, Oregon and River Forest, Ill. She received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York City.
In 1960 she retired and moved to Salem, where she was a Laubach literacy program teacher. She moved to a convalescent home in Milwaukie in 1971. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Salem and the American Association of University Women.
Survivors include her nieces, Alice Steiner, Metairie, La., and Joanne Pendleton, Chicago, Ill.; and nephews, Charles Poindexter, Portland, David Poindexter, Cresskill, N.J., and James Porter, Chicago, Ill.
Contributions may be made to the Ada L. Porter Memorial Fund at Willamette View Manor, 12705 S.E. River Road, Milwaukie 97222."
SJ Jul 22, 1987 2B:4
Bio source: Oregon Pioneers Website
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