MARTIN PORTER, SR.

GOLDEN CITY- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Konantz Warden Funeral Home in Lamar for Martin Taylor Porter, Sr., 96, Golden City, who died Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, at Parkview Healthcare in Bolivar. A visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 10 a.m. Burial will follow at Springhill Cemetery in Rogersville.

Contributions may be made to the VFW Post No. 3691.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include his wife, Alice; two sons, Martin Porter, Jr., Bolivar and Kenneth Porter and wife Rebecca, Galena, Kan.; five grandchildren, John Porter, Brian Porter, Martin Porter, Tina Frates and Kathy Banuelos; eight great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his siblings.

Mr. Porter was born Feb. 17, 1924, in Christian County, the youngest of seven children of William and Amanda (Abney) Porter. He enjoyed life as a farm kid, surrounded by hound dogs, sheep and hogs. He fished in a nearby creek and killed his first squirrel with a muzzle loaded rifle at the age of 10.

He married Alice Z. Evert on May 21, 1944. He then joined the Army, where he served from Sept. 12, 1944 to April 18, 1946, as a 1st Cavalry Rifleman in the Pacific, in both the Philippines and Japan and took part in the Legion Liberation of Occupied Japan. After Army service he took his wife and son, Martin Jr. to the farm and did clerical work in Kansas and Missouri. Another son, Kenneth, was born while in Missouri.

Mr. Porter worked for Charlie Flag Motors, the Buick Agency in Lamar and then owned a body shop in Golden City from 1964 to 1993. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars No. 1850, which is now No. 3691 and was the District 7 Commander from 1987 to 1988.