Glen Porter Rites Today
WHEELER - (Special) - Funeral services for Glen Porter, 39, prominent Wheeltr [sic] County rancher, were held at 3 p.m. today.
The rites were held in the Methodist Church with the Rev. Darris L. Egger, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Hugh Hunt of Chillicothe, Texas.
Burial, under the direction of the Kirk-Mason Funeral Home, was on the Porter Ranch at the site that Porter himself had chosen for his grave.
Porter was found dead in bed at the ranch home eight miles north of Wheeler early Tuesday morning. He apparently died in his sleep from a heart attack.
The Porter family has been in the county since about 1899, and Porter was operating the T-Bar Ranch founded by his late father.
Porter is survived by his wife, Madge; by three children, Glenda Ann, Jim, and Dwaine; by tso sisters, Mrs. Cora Hyatt of Wheeler, and Mrs. J.H. Caperton of Shamrock; and by his mother, Mrs. J.M. Porter of Wheeler.
His mother is author of the Panhandle history "Memory Cups of Panhandle Pioneers," published in 1945.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - 20 Oct 1949, Thu - Page 1)
WHEELER - (Special) - Funeral services for Glen Porter, 39, prominent Wheeltr [sic] County rancher, were held at 3 p.m. today.
The rites were held in the Methodist Church with the Rev. Darris L. Egger, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Hugh Hunt of Chillicothe, Texas.
Burial, under the direction of the Kirk-Mason Funeral Home, was on the Porter Ranch at the site that Porter himself had chosen for his grave.
Porter was found dead in bed at the ranch home eight miles north of Wheeler early Tuesday morning. He apparently died in his sleep from a heart attack.
The Porter family has been in the county since about 1899, and Porter was operating the T-Bar Ranch founded by his late father.
Porter is survived by his wife, Madge; by three children, Glenda Ann, Jim, and Dwaine; by tso sisters, Mrs. Cora Hyatt of Wheeler, and Mrs. J.H. Caperton of Shamrock; and by his mother, Mrs. J.M. Porter of Wheeler.
His mother is author of the Panhandle history "Memory Cups of Panhandle Pioneers," published in 1945.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - 20 Oct 1949, Thu - Page 1)
Glen Porter Rites Today
WHEELER - (Special) - Funeral services for Glen Porter, 39, prominent Wheeltr [sic] County rancher, were held at 3 p.m. today.
The rites were held in the Methodist Church with the Rev. Darris L. Egger, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Hugh Hunt of Chillicothe, Texas.
Burial, under the direction of the Kirk-Mason Funeral Home, was on the Porter Ranch at the site that Porter himself had chosen for his grave.
Porter was found dead in bed at the ranch home eight miles north of Wheeler early Tuesday morning. He apparently died in his sleep from a heart attack.
The Porter family has been in the county since about 1899, and Porter was operating the T-Bar Ranch founded by his late father.
Porter is survived by his wife, Madge; by three children, Glenda Ann, Jim, and Dwaine; by tso sisters, Mrs. Cora Hyatt of Wheeler, and Mrs. J.H. Caperton of Shamrock; and by his mother, Mrs. J.M. Porter of Wheeler.
His mother is author of the Panhandle history "Memory Cups of Panhandle Pioneers," published in 1945.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - 20 Oct 1949, Thu - Page 1)
WHEELER - (Special) - Funeral services for Glen Porter, 39, prominent Wheeltr [sic] County rancher, were held at 3 p.m. today.
The rites were held in the Methodist Church with the Rev. Darris L. Egger, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Hugh Hunt of Chillicothe, Texas.
Burial, under the direction of the Kirk-Mason Funeral Home, was on the Porter Ranch at the site that Porter himself had chosen for his grave.
Porter was found dead in bed at the ranch home eight miles north of Wheeler early Tuesday morning. He apparently died in his sleep from a heart attack.
The Porter family has been in the county since about 1899, and Porter was operating the T-Bar Ranch founded by his late father.
Porter is survived by his wife, Madge; by three children, Glenda Ann, Jim, and Dwaine; by tso sisters, Mrs. Cora Hyatt of Wheeler, and Mrs. J.H. Caperton of Shamrock; and by his mother, Mrs. J.M. Porter of Wheeler.
His mother is author of the Panhandle history "Memory Cups of Panhandle Pioneers," published in 1945.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - 20 Oct 1949, Thu - Page 1)
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