Georgia Blair-Porter

Marietta Monitor

Friday, March 30, 2001

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Georgia Blair-Porter, 91, of Marietta, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 31, at the New Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Marietta, with the Rev. Clentis McCarroll officiating.

Mrs. Porter was born January 8, 1910, at Belview, Texas, the daughter of Gude and Julia Ann Oliver Blair. She died Sunday, March 25, 2001, in an Ardmore hospital following a short illness.

She lived in Belview, Selina, Texas, and Allen, Texas, before recently moving to Marietta to live with her brother, Moses Blair. Mrs. Porter was a longtime member of St. Mary's Baptist Church in Allen.

Survivors include a brother of the home; two stepsons, James Porter and Charles Porter of Wichita, Kansas; step-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Porter was preceded in death by seven siblings, Andrew, Willie "Buddy," Warren, Ananais "Nit," Gude "Honey," Eddie and Elizabeth.

Interment will be in Prairie View Cemetery, under the direction of Kirk-Dawson- Dillard Funeral Home, Ardmore.