W. Wade Porter

W. Wade Porter Winston Wade Porter, longtime resident of Austin, died February 1, 2011, from pancreatic cancer. He was born December 30, 1952, in Houston, Texas, to A. Allen Porter and Jay Porter. Wade is survived by his wife Rayda and daughter Stacey; his mother Jay Porter of Houston; his brother Clay Porter of Houston and his wife, Susan, and their sons Brian and Brandon Porter. While Wade enjoyed his career as an attorney, most recently as a partner with Allensworth & Porter, L.L.P. in Austin, he also enjoyed reading Presidential biographies, following baseball, and blogging about current events and his life. In one blog post, he wrote the following to be included in his obituary. "My obituary is very important to me. Sort of a last shot that less prescient people than myself often forget to take. I think that the following might be used: 'His sartorial style was known more for its terrifying redundancy than for its distinction. He owned twenty-five pairs of Academy walking shorts, of which he wore the same two every day of his life. His dress shirts were an amazing array of white with small red spots which had been transferred there through over exuberant experiences with Pico de Gallo and pasta sauces. He had over twenty suits, of which no more than three fit at any particular time in his life. As casual wear, he preferred to don golf shirts from different timeshare resorts he had obligingly purchased from Romanian salesmen over the course of his legal career. The T-shirts which he wore each morning to walk his beloved dog, Amber, were known and admired all around the block for their faded humorous statements ("Old guys rule ") and stretches around the mid-section. He never went to a ballpark without buying a cap, and he never wore the purchased cap again unless he found it rummaging through the trunk of his car and managed to bend it back into good enough shape to fit on his pointy gray head. Like the pig of song and lore, his shoes were a "terrible disgrace" and his woven belts were each frayed to perfection at points where they could almost, but not quite, be hidden behind the belt loops of his pants. His penchant for wearing a pair of socks each day, one black and one navy blue, was a tribute not only to his poor eye sight, but to his refusal to be hemmed-in by fashion's dictates, need for peer approval, or even good common sense. He will be missed by all whom he made feel better about their shoe shine each and every day.' That's how I want to be remembered." Services will be held at St. John's United Methodist Church, 2140 Allandale Road, Austin, TX 78756, at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 5, 2011. In lieu of flowers, the family would like contributions made in Wade's memory to the Imagine No Malaria campaign (www.imaginenomalaria.org) or Operation Achievement, a mentoring and enriching program for middle school students in Georgetown, jointly run by Southwestern University and Georgetown ISD. Donations to Operation Achievement can be sent to Southwestern University/Operation Achievement, PO Box 770, Georgetown, TX 78627.