Porter, Edmund Forbes 1882-1931

PORTER, KNOX, WHITE, MINTEY, KING

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The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Sept. 8, 1931

AN OBITUARY OF
EDMUND PORTER

Edmund Forbes Porter was born November 23, 1882 on a farm three miles southeast of Grinnell and died August 31, after a long illness of tuberculosis, at his home. He attended Grinnell high school and graduated in the class of 1901. He then attended the Capital City Commercial college for a while and in 1905 went to Longmont, Colo.

In 1909 he was married to Ina Knox of Newton and they started housekeeping in Longmont. Two children were born to them, Wilbur in 1914, and Dwight in 1916. He entered the civil service in 1907 and worked in the Longmont post office for eleven years. They then moved on his father's farm in Minnesota for a time and moved to Grinnell in 1919. He was engaged in Register and Tribune work and Prudential insurance. In 1921 he started to work in the post office of this city and worked until he was taken sick, which was in January of this year.

He was a kind and loving father and leaves to mourn his loss three sons, Wilbur, Dwight and little Claire who was born in Grinnell in 1928, and his wife; also his father of Randolph, Minn., three sisters, Mrs. M.W. White of Sioux Falls, S.D., Mrs. R.C. Mintey of Cresco, Mrs. F.H. King of Los Angeles; two brothers, Harry Porter of Clarks Grove, Minn., and Ray Porter of Randolph, Minn., and a host of friends.

The quartet which furnished two beautiful numbers, "In the Garden" and "Jesus Savior Pilot Me," was composed of Mrs. Bert Johnson, Mrs. Arthur Robison, Cecil Myers and Wendell Lewis. The bearers were fellow workers, Walter Neely, Arthur Burton, Earl Mintle, Earl Kennedy, John Peters and Bert Johnson. Interment was made in Hazelwood cemetery.