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April 14, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 19,2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 3-6 PM and Sunday, April 18, 2010 from 2-6PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mildred’s memory are asked to consider the Boys and Girls Club of Paterson, 264 21st Ave., Paterson, NJ 07501.
Mildred E. Porter (nee Beggs) age 90 of Paterson passed away on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 peacefully at home with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and had lived in Paterson all of her life.
Mildred received her formal education at Eastside High School, Paterson graduating with the Class of 1939.
While at Eastside she was a football cheerleader and met her husband to be Walter W. Porter Jr who was a football star. They were high school sweethearts for two years and after graduation they married on September 20, 1941 by the Reverend Elwell at the Broadway Baptist Church in Paterson and immediately after their marriage ceremony they went to Saint Joseph’s RC Church on Market Street and married one more time in a Roman Catholic Ceremony. They enjoyed sixty-nine years of “wonderful” marriage”.
Mildred left her sons and grandchildren a heartfelt message. “As your mother and grandmother no words can describe how much you mean to me and I want you to know one more time that I love you with all of my heart and soul and wish the best of everything . God promises that we will meet again in heaven.”
She was a proud member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Jephtha Chapter 134, the Passaic County Republican Organization, and the Haledon Chapter of the AARP.
Surviving are her loving husband Walter W. Porter Jr.; two sons Russell Porter and his wife Natasha of Chantilly, Virginia and Douglas Porter and his wife Robin of Panther Valley section of Allamuchy; grandchildren Matthew Porter, Darren Porter and his wife Tracey of Chantilly, Virginia, Sharon O’Meara and her husband Patrick of Liberty Twp., and Jennifer Schleer and her husband John of Roxbury Twp.; great grandchildren Grace, Colin and McKenna Rose.
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Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 19,2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 3-6 PM and Sunday, April 18, 2010 from 2-6PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mildred’s memory are asked to consider the Boys and Girls Club of Paterson, 264 21st Ave., Paterson, NJ 07501.
April 14, 2010
Services
Funeral services will be held 10 AM on Monday, April 19,2010 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 3-6 PM and Sunday, April 18, 2010 from 2-6PM at the funeral home. Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa. Those planning an expression of sympathy in Mildred’s memory are asked to consider the Boys and Girls Club of Paterson, 264 21st Ave., Paterson, NJ 07501.
Mildred E. Porter (nee Beggs) age 90 of Paterson passed away on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 peacefully at home with the comfort of family by her side.
She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and had lived in Paterson all of her life.
Mildred received her formal education at Eastside High School, Paterson graduating with the Class of 1939.
While at Eastside she was a football cheerleader and met her husband to be Walter W. Porter Jr who was a football star. They were high school sweethearts for two years and after graduation they married on September 20, 1941 by the Reverend Elwell at the Broadway Baptist Church in Paterson and immediately after their marriage ceremony they went to Saint Joseph’s RC Church on Market Street and married one more time in a Roman Catholic Ceremony. They enjoyed sixty-nine years of “wonderful” marriage”.
Mildred left her sons and grandchildren a heartfelt message. “As your mother and grandmother no words can describe how much you mean to me and I want you to know one more time that I love you with all of my heart and soul and wish the best of everything . God promises that we will meet again in heaven.”
She was a proud member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Jephtha Chapter 134, the Passaic County Republican Organization, and the Haledon Chapter of the AARP.
Surviving are her loving husband Walter W. Porter Jr.; two sons Russell Porter and his wife Natasha of Chantilly, Virginia and Douglas Porter and his wife Robin of Panther Valley section of Allamuchy; grandchildren Matthew Porter, Darren Porter and his wife Tracey of Chantilly, Virginia, Sharon O’Meara and her husband Patrick of Liberty Twp., and Jennifer Schleer and her husband John of Roxbury Twp.; great grandchildren Grace, Colin and McKenna Rose.
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