Date of birth: 04 Jan 1920
Date of death: 20 Feb 2006

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0330-04
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY
Rank: MSG - Master Sergeant
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II - Soldier's Medal & KOREA

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Notes

Obituary
Norman Doty Porter

Services for Norman Doty Porter, 86, of Greenwood, who died Monday, Feb. 20, 2006, at Golden Age Nursing Home, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Lexington.

Mr. Porter was an accountant and office manager for Hammett Co. for 32 years. A native of Lexington, he was born Jan. 4, 1920, to the late Sally Doty and Alfred Allen Porter Sr. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, and was awarded the Soldier's Medal during World War II for saving the life of his commanding officer. He was a 50-year member of the Lexington Masonic Lodge, and was a member of the Greenwood Elks Lodge. He was a longtime faithful member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church.

He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Jean McGraw Porter of Greenwood; two sons, Alfred "Al" Porter and his wife, Rhonda, of Louisville, and John Doty Porter and his wife, Gale, of Greenwood; five grandchildren, Doty Porter, and his wife, Mary Gregory, and Sloane Porter, all of Greenwood, and Sally Porter, Mary Claire Porter and Olivia Porter, all of Louisville.

Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 until 7 this evening at Southern Funeral Home in Lexington.

Memorials may be made to St. Mary's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 63, Lexington, MS 39095.

Greenwood Commonwealth
Feb/23/2006

Family Members

Parents
Alfred Allen Porter
1877–1952

Sarah Elizabeth Doty Porter
1875–1955

Siblings
Alfred Allen Porter
1908–1964

Emma Alice Porter Barth
1910–1990

Kathrine Lucille Porter McDaniel
1914–1967

Half Siblings
James L Porter
1901–2000

Spouse
Jean McCraw Porter
1919–2010

Children
Infant Son Porter
1943–1943

Norman Doty Porter, Jr.
1944–1944

Alfred Porter
living

John Doty Porter
living

Military Notes

U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, and was awarded the Soldier's Medal during World War II for saving the life of his commanding officer.

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