Age 79, Lawton - Memorial service will be at 2:00pm Monday in the First United Methodist Church, Cache with Rev. Jennifer Long, Pastor officiating. Mr. Porter died Thursday in a Lawton hospital. Inurnment will be in the Cache Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. He was born July 7, 1929 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to Broken Arrow Pioneers, Og and Margaret (Whitley) Porter. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater with two degrees. He served eight years in the United States Naval Reserve from 1951 until 1959. He married Neva Smith on September 27, 1973 in Lawton. She died January 2, 1981. He then married his present wife Sophia A. Pennington on October 2, 1981 in Lawton. He was a General Contractor, a fifty year member of the ELKS Lodge, Breakfast Optimist and was a 32 degree Mason. Survivors include his wife of the home, son Mark Porter and his wife Merlene of Arkansas, two grandsons, Andrew Porter of Stillwater, OK, T.J. Porter of Idaho, nine step-children, Byron and wife Cindy Pennington of Lawton, Mark and wife Janie Pennington of Lawton, Cheri and husband Larry Ewert, Kay Rejda, Frank Dunshee, Julie and husband Bob Barrows, Pat and wife Kyra Dunshee, Molly and husband Miles Thompson, Ann and husband Jeff Baird, his sister Bette Perry of Broken Arrow, 31 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, son-Mike Wayne Porter and five brothers-Howard, Craig, Eugene, Wilburn and Frank. Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church of Cache Building Fund at PO Box 436, Cache, OK 73527.