Cora Merle (Bennett)& Jay W Porter
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Obit for Cora posted by Jo Aguirre
http://obituaries.enidnews.com/
Enid News & Eagle, May 6, 2004
MADILL — The funeral for Cora Merle Porter, 97, will be 2 p.m. today in
Little City Baptist Church. Art Brown will officiate. Burial will be in
Woodberry-Forest Cemetery. Arrangements are by Watts Funeral Home.
She was born Aug. 27, 1906, in Cheyenne Valley to James William and Mary
Caroline Matilita Redinger Bennett and died Monday, May 3, 2004.
She attended school at Media, then college at Northwestern State in Alva. She
taught school at Independent 103, south of Goltry. On April 8, 1928, she married
Jay W. Porter. They moved to Marshall County in 1939 and were engaged in
farming/ranching. She was a member of Little City Baptist Church and was a
Sunday school teacher for more than 60 years.
Surviving are three sons, Leroy of Pauls Valley, Hubert of Oakland and Bill of
Madill; two daughters, Korene Reimer of Enid and Rose Mary Blakely of Madill;
eight grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, one brother and one sister.
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