Leona M. (Honnold) Porter (1985)

BURD, DEREUS, HONNOLD, PORTER, WARING, WHEELER

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Date: 4/3/2012 at 08:55:34

Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Tuesday, May 7, 1985
Metro Page 7

WINTERSET, IA.—Services for Leona Porter, 85, of rural Adel, who died of cancer Sunday at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Collins Funeral Home. Burial will be in Winterset Cemetery.

Mrs. Porter was born in Otley and lived in Dallas County 38 years.

Survivors include her husband, Lee; two sons, Leslie of Des Moines and Weaver of Peru; four brothers, Vern Honnold of Winterset, Ivan Honnold of Horseshoe Bend, Ark., Willis Honnold of Des Moines, and John Honnold of Adel; three sisters, Grace Waring of Lorimor, Esther Wheeler of Macksburg and Natalie Burd of Winterset; nine grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; on one great-great-grandchild.

Friends may call after noon today at the funeral home.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, May 8, 1985
Page 9

Leona M. Porter, Adel

Services for Leona M. Porter, 85, rural Adel, who died May 5 at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, were held Wednesday, May 8 at the Collins Funeral Home with the Rev. James Robertson officiating. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery.

Born at Otley Jan. 5, 1900, she was the daughter of William J. and Marie Mae DeReus Honnold. She married Lee A. Porter on March 30, 1920 at Newton. She was a housewife and had spent the last 38 years in Dallas County.

Survivors include her husband; sons, Leslie of Des Moines and Weaver of Peru; brothers, Vern of Winterset, Ivan of Horseshoe Bend, Ark., Willis of Des Moines and John of rural Adel; sisters, Mrs. Grace Waring of Lorimor, Esther Wheeler of Macksburg and Natalie Burd of Winterset; 10 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a great grandson, two brothers and a sister.

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