Person:Villa Wharton (1)

Watchers
m. 25 Oct 1925
  1. Alton Eugene Porter1925 - 1999
  2. Wendell Gordon Porter1927 - 2000
Facts and Events
Name Villa Pearl Wharton
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 5 Jun 1906 Gentry, Gentry County, Missouri, United States_SURETY: 3
Marriage 25 Oct 1925 _SURETY: 3
to Lee Middleton Porter
Death[3][4][5] 28 Nov 2002 Dalhart, Dallam Co., Texas, United States_SURETY: 3
Burial? Memorial Park Cemetery, Dalhart, Dallam Co., Texas, United States

According to the 1930 Dallam Co., TX census, both of Villia's parents were born in Missouri

References
  1. Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

    _DETAIL:
    _CREDIBILITY: 100
    Changed:
    Date: 25 MAY 2006
    Time: 19:52:27

  2. Dallam, Texas, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    _DETAIL:
    _CREDIBILITY: 100
    Changed:
    Date: 25 MAY 2006
    Time: 19:51:55

  3. Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index: Death Master File, database. (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service).

    _DETAIL:
    _CREDIBILITY: 100
    Changed:
    Date: 25 MAY 2006
    Time: 19:47:07

  4. \par
  5. Birth: \tab Jun. 5, 1906
    Gentry, Gentry County, Missouri, USA
    Death: \tab Nov. 28, 2002. Texas, USA
    OBITUARY
    Villa Pearl Wharton Porter
    DALHART - Villa Pearl Wharton Porter, 96, died Thursday, Nov. 28, 2002.

    Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Horizon Funeral Home.

    Mrs. Porter was born June 5, 1906, in Gentry, Mo., to Walter G. and Hettie Walker Wharton. Villa's family moved from Gentry in 1908 and settled near the little town of Ware on a farm and then moved to the Bunker Hill Community northwest of Dalhart.

    Villa was a longtime resident of Dalhart. She was a faithful member of the local Seventh-Day Adventist Church of which she served as treasurer for many years. She was a member of Chamberlain Home Demonstration Club and also an active member of the quilting department of the Dalhart Senior Citizens Center.

    She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Roy Wharton and Rue Wharton; two sisters, Secile Gill and Margaret Wagoner; her husband, Lee M. Porter; and two sons, Alton Porter and Wendell Porter.

    Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Juanita Porter; a sister-in-law, Grace Wharton; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

    Amarillo Globe-News
    Amarillo, Texas
    November 30, 2002

    Burial:
    Memorial Park Cemetery
    Dalhart
    Dallam County
    Texas, USA