Ruth Porter

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Services for Ruth Porter of Roxie are 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 2 atFranklin Funeral Home Chapel in Meadville with burial in MidwayCemetery in Meadville.

Visitation is Sunday from 1-2 p.m., at the funeral home.

Mrs. Porter, 99, died Jan. 1, 2005, at Natchez CommunityHospital. She was born in Franklin County on Sept. 25, 1905, toJames Murray and Lula McManus Murray.

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She was a homemaker. She was a member of Eddiceton UnitedPentecostal Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, CliftonPorter; her son, Douglas Porter; two brothers, Homer and LesleyMurray; and three sisters, Myrtis and Lela Murray, and ReneAlbritton.

Survivors are her daughter, Edith Porter Jordan of Roxie; herbrothers, Floyd Murray and Edward Murray, both of Meadville; twograndchildren; six great-grandchildren; and 12great-great-grandchildren.