Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1912 — Funeral of Mrs. Ross Porter Held Thursday Afternoon. [ARTICLE]

Funeral of Mrs. Ross Porter Held Thursday Afternoon.

The funeral of Mrs. Ross Porter was, held Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the residence of W. V. Porter on .North Main street. The body laid in state from 10 to 2:30 o’clock and the casket was not opened at the funeral or the cemetery. The funeral was largely attended and the large and beautiful floral contributions-showed with how much esteem Mrs. Porter was held in the hearts of her friends. The Girls’ Literary Club, of which she was a member, attended in a body. The services were in charge of Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the Presbyterian church. The pall bearers were Bradley Ross, Livingston Ross, Harry «Eger, Ray Parks, Leon Lamson and George Long. The flower girls were Misses Edna Long, Blanche Babcock, Beatrice Yates, Myrtle York, Mildred Biggs and Mesdames Harry Collins, Firman Thompson and Ivan Carson. As the pall bearers filed out of the house with the casket the flower girls, bearing the bountiful contribution of flowers, formed a line on either side of the wglk, through which the solemn procession passed. The flowers were then conveyed by automobile to the cemetery, by a shorter route than the procession, and laid at the grave.