Samuel Leslie Porter and Joni Joni Lovel Porter
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Funeral services for Sam Leslie Porter, 70, Mayor of Dickens, were held Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church, Spur. Elder Luther Porter, Paducah, of the Primitive Baptist Church, officiated, assisted by Rev. Eddie Allsup, pastor of the FUMC of Spur.

Porter died June 2 about 1:55 p.m. in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, following a brief illness. A longtime Dickens businessman, he was active in many community affairs. Besides serving as Mayor of Dickens, he was a member of the Patton Springs school board. He had recently been named as Outstanding Citizen of Dickens for 1984. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.

Born September 27, 1913 in Croton Community of Dickens County, he married the former Joni Lovell August 21, 1937 in Seminole. He lived most of his life in Dickens County.

Survivors include his wife, Joni, of Dickens; a son, Bobby Porter, Wichita Falls; two daughters, Sammie Phillips, Matador; Sherry Ford, Levelland; two brothers, Tom Porter, Floydada and Bob Porter, Dickens; (One brother, J.C. Porter, died June 1, 1984); five sisters, Alyce Lawson, Ruby Lawson, Virgie Scoggins, all of Levelland; Mary Nichols, Croton Community and Helen Lundbery, San Saba; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Pallbearers included members of the Dickens Volunteer Fire Department, Von Hammons, Guy Goen, Raymond Adams, Larry Little, Jim Bo Humphreys and Lewis Mullins. Honorary pallbearers included Steve Drennan, David Hutton, Bill Scott, David Warren, Jay Laster and Foy Jackson.

Burial was in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.

©The Texas Spur, June, 1984

Joni Porter
Services for Joni Lovell Porter, 88, of Dickens were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 13, 2003 at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Larry Burton, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Spur, officiating. Burial was in the Dickens Cemetery under the direction of Seigler Funeral Home of Matador. She died Monday, March 10, 2003 at Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock.

She was born March 10, 1915, at Draper in Dickens County. She was a graduate of Texas Tech. She was married to Sam L. Porter on August 21, 1937, at Seminole, Texas. They made their home in the Afton community from 1947 until 1974 when they moved to Dickens. Mrs. Porter and her husband owned and operated Porter Oil Company for a number of years. She was a member of the Dickens Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband on June 2, 1984.

She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Bobby and Shirley Porter of Mineral Wells, Texas; two daughters, Sammie Phillips of Matador and Sherry Fred and her husband, Prentiss, of Levelland, Texas; five grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

©The Texas Spur, Thursday, March 20, 2003, page five
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