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Decatur County Journal
Thursday, September 2, l9l5
MRS. F.R. PORTER was one of the seven children of MR. and MRS. URIAH
BOBBITT, born in Leon, Decatur County, Iowa, April 30, l856, and died in
Des Moines, on the l9th of August, l9l5, aged fifty-nine years, three
months and nineteen days.
Leon was her home until the time of her marriage to MR. F.R. PORTER,
which occurred November l3, l878. They made their home near Leon for
two and one-half years, then moved to Ringgold County. After about
three years they returned to Leon. This was their home until l884, when
they moved to Van Wert, where they have since resided.
MRS. PORTER was always an active worker in all that pertained to the
upbuilding of society whether in the church, Bible School or public
school. In all these she had proven herself very efficient.
While a young girl in her teens she was an active worker in the Young
Ladies Prayer Circle. That was before the days of Christian Endeavor,
and for many years she was an active member in this Society. Always of
a religious character, she found her greatest pleasure in Christian
service. From early youth she has been a member of church, a devoted
servant of her Lord. In Tingley, Iowa, she changed her church
relations, then uniting with the church of Christ. Of this she has ever
been a loyal member, a willing worker. Almost the last words she spoke
before leaving home for Des Moines, five weeks ago, were "Ill go to Des
Moines, undergo the operation and speedily return to help the sisters
raise the rest of the money necessary to pay the pledge made by the
sisters on dedication day." For years she with others of the sisters,
has worked for the new church. It was her thought, her prayer that she
might be helpful in the work of building and paying. How glad we are
that she was permitted to see the beautiful building completed and
dedicated to the service of God ere she passed to be with Him.
Much of the life work of MRS. PORTER was in the school room and there as
in all other places she was very successful.
The home life of the PORTERS was a model one. Three boys were born to
them, the oldest dying in infancy, the others, FRED of Laramie, Wyoming,
and FRANK of Des Moines, with his wife and son, WILLARD, are with the
father, a brother and sister left to mourn her death. These are not all
by all means that feel they have lost a friend and sister in her passing
away.
She knew the end was near and her faith was of that character that did
not shrink. When the doctors said they would operate, she said: "Thank
the Lord." She was willing, yet anxious to have it done; she grasped it
as a possible chance to lengthen her life, yet well knowing that it
might be the last of earch. Such was her faith, her hope, her life, her
death.
We shall miss her in all our gatherings, whether in the Bible School,
the church, the meetings of the King's Daughters or in our social
gatherings. But the greatest losers are the husband, the children and
the brother, W.H. BOBBITT, of Leon, and the sister, MINERVA WELDON, of
Neodasha, Kansas.
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