John Crouch Porter^[1]

1932 - 2001  (69 years)

• Name	John Crouch Porter
  Born	3 Mar 1932
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Jun 2001	Jacksonville, Florida   [2]
  Buried	19 Jun 2001	Jacksonville Memory Gardens Cemetery
  Person ID	I97177	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2009

  
  

  Father	John Calhoun Porter,   b. 7 Oct 1900, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 7 Jan 1999, Newport Medical Center, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  (Age 98 years)
  Mother	Bessie Bettis Crouch,   b. 31 Aug 1904
  Family ID	F35394	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Sara Louise Wall,   b. 8 Dec 1937,   d. 21 Nov 1983  (Age 45 years)
  Married	Jun 1960	Huntsville, Alabama
  Children	+ 1. John Calhoun Porter, II,   b. Aug 1966  (Age ~ 58 years)   2. Rev. David Wall Porter,   b. Feb 1969  (Age ~ 56 years) + 3. Sara Elizabeth Porter,   b. 13 Jan 1972  (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F35396	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 202. [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 16 Jun 2001. JACKSONVILLE, FL-John Crouch Porter, age 69, passed away Saturday evening, June 16, at his home in Jacksonville, FL. Mr. Porter had been in declining health for several years. His primary and secondary education was in the Newport and Cocke County school systems before he attended the University of Tennessee. His education was interrupted by a four-year tour of duty in the United States Air Force where he was trained in electronics, firing systems, and radar. Following his honorable discharge from the service, his special background in high-tech electronics brought him civilian employment at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL with RCA Corporation of America. He met and married Louise Wall in Huntsville and later moved to Jacksonville, FL where he had similar duties at Cecil Field, Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Ultimately the government assumed the support, instruction, and maintenance duties provided by RCA personnel to the Air Force and Navy, and Mr. Porter again became a government employee for the balance of his career. He was preceded in death by his wife, Louise Wall, and his father, Attorney John C. Porter, of Newport. He is survived by his son, John Calhoun Porter, II, of Jacksonville, FL; son and daughter-in-law, The Reverend David Wall and Misty C. Porter, Plano, TX; daughter and son-in-law, Sam and Sara P. Warnock, Rincon, GA; grandchildren, Jessica Nicole and Sawyer Calhoun Porter, of Jacksonville, FL; Brady; David Samuel Porter, of Plano, TX; Cody and Caitlin Warnock, of Rincon, GA; mother, Bessie C. Porter, and brother and sister-in-law, Judge Kenneth and Janet R. Porter, of Newport. Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 19, 2001, at 2 p.m., in the chapel of Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home, 111 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, FL, followed by interment in Jacksonville Memory Gardens Cemetery. Family received friends Tuesday, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home. Family requests memorials be made to the American Cancer Society, 4030 Boulevard Center Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32207. Jacksonville Memory Gardens Funeral Home in charge.