PORTER,JohnSr
JOHN PORTER SR.
1912-1999

Funeral services were held yesterday, Tuesday, December 28,1999
for John Virgil Porter, Sr., 87, formerly of Johnson County, who
died Thursday, December 23, in Lehigh Acres, Florida.

Mr. Porter was born January 23, 1912, at Dewey in Floyd County,
to the late Henry Walker and Hedda Ina McFarland Pelphrey he was
a retired educator, businessman and veteran.

He was the superintendent of Johnson County Schools when Johnson
Central High School and Porter Elementary were built. Over a
tenure of more than 40 years, he served the county school system
in areas as a teacher at several one room schools, supervisor of
schools, head teacher at West Van Lear and principal at both
Flat Gap and Oil Springs high schools. He also doubled as a
woodworking instructor at Mayo Vocational School while he was
supervisor of schools. At one time he had owned and managed the
Spur Bottling Plant, two service stations and a dry cleaners
shop. He was also a Lieutenant JG with the United States Navy
during World War II. Mr. Porter was a past member of the First
Christian Church of Paintsville where he served as an elder
during the 1950s and 1960s. Subsequently, he transferred his
membership to the Southern Acres Christian Church in Lexington.
He was a graduate of Van Lear High School, where he played
football for the Van Lear Bank Mules, Pikeville College and
Western Kentucky Teachers College. Surviving are his wife, Norma
Jean Williams Lybrook Porter; two sons, Joseph and John, both of
Paintsville; one stepson, David Lybrook of Lehigh Acres; one
stepdaughter, Arnetta Lybrook of Lehigh Acres; and five
grandchildren, Brittany Porter, John Virgil Porter III and Darcy
Jo, all of Paintsville; and David Lybrook and Lindsay Lybrook
Martin, both of Lexington.

Officiating at 2 p.m. services at Jones-Preston Funeral Home
Chapel was Jerry Castle.

Burial was held at Highland Memorial Park at Staffordsville.


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