Voncile "Cricket" Evelyn Lowe Porter
Voncile E. Porter, 94, of Ft. White, Florida, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Saturday morning December 21, 2013. She was born in Kendrick, Florida to the late Lawrence and Etoil "Criswell" Lowe.
She graduated from Ft. White Public School, married Ethan Porter in 1937 and settled into the life of a farmer's wife, during a time when little to no equipment, other than muscle power, was available. Together they raised a family and lived a good life. She was a longtime member of Elim Baptist Church and avidly studied the bible, taught Sunday school, VBS, and happily professed Jesus Christ as her Savior.
She later worked several years at the General Electric Battery Plant in Alachua. She was a loving wife, mother, grand, great and great great grandmother, who enjoyed gardening (she had a unique ability to nurse sick plants back to health), playing cards and working on puzzles. She loved to travel and some of her fondest memories were of the bus tours she would take with her sister in law and her close friends. She was preceded in death by her brother, Leroy Lowe, her sister, Ethel Smith and her loving husband of 71 years, Ethan Porter.
Survivors include her sons, Norman (Annie Laura) Porter and Bobby (Mary Emma) Porter; and her daughter, Gwendolyn (Huey) Hawkins all of Ft. White, FL; grandchildren, Eathan (Janise) Porter Jr., George (Laura) Porter, Rebecca Ann (Keith) McCarley, David Porter, Sheri (Bill) Koon, Kevin (Diane) Porter, and Brian (Jolene) Hawkins; 14 great grandchildren & 3 great great grandchildren.
The family would like to express their most heart felt thanks to the Neurology & Neurosurgery Departments at Shands UF for their care and compassion during Mrs. Porter's brief hospitalization and to Dr. Alan Goldblatt, for the years of care and friendship he's shown her during office visits and at her bedside. We will be forever grateful.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m., on Monday, December 23, 2013 at Elim Baptist Church, Ft. White, Florida with Pastor Larry Sweat officiating, assisted by Rev. Charles Knight. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation with the family will be held one hour prior to service time (2:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.) at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations in "Cricket's" honor, be made to the Elim Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 448, Ft. White, Florida 32038.
Gateway-Forest Lawn Funeral Home, 3596 South U.S. Hwy 441, Lake City, FL. 32025. (386) 752-1954.
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