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Show FUNERAL FOR TOMMIE PORTER HELDAPRIL 1 Funeral services were conducted con-ducted the afternoon of April 1 for Thomas (Tommie) LeRoy Porter, 40, 258 Vine street, Murray, Mur-ray, in the Salt Lake Masonic temple under direction of Canyon Can-yon lodge No. 13, F. & A. M. Worshipful Wor-shipful Master Robert Sonne of Lark officiated. Interment was in Mt. Olivet cemetery. Mr. Porter, for 10 years a sports' writer for the Salt Lake Telegram, died of a heart attack at his home Sunday. He was a switchman for the Union Pacific Railroad. Before 'Mr.' Porter became be-came connected with the Telegram Tele-gram he was employed by Utah Copper company and the B. & G. Railroad. He had many friends in this district. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Helen Ruth Lindsay Porter; Port-er; his mother, Mrs. Anna Jones Housman of Enid, Okla.; his father, fath-er, Frank LeRoy Porter of Emporia, Em-poria, Kansas, and a half-brother, William Housman, with the navy at New Orleans. His stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Housman, and an aunt, Mrs. Margaret Stevens Ste-vens of Emporia, Kansas, arrived arriv-ed for the funeral. Mr. Porter was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Jones of Copperton with whom he made his home for many years in Copperfield and CoDPerton. |