Army Legacies: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Edward PORTER Jr.
PORTER, Edward Barnard Jr. "Joe" a retired businessman, died at his home in St. Petersburg on Saturday, May 18, 2013. He was 91. His family was at his bedside in the last days of his life. Edward Barnard Porter Jr. was born in Beaufort, SC, on June 15, 1921, the eldest of four children of Edward B. and Sarah Peacock Porter. His family soon moved to Thomasville, GA, where he spent most of his Depression-era youth. As a young man he was industrious, sometimes working eighty-hour weeks at a...