PORTER, Florence A.: Spangs in the United States

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

Generation: 1

PORTER, Florence A. was born 14 Dec 1923, Vincennes, Indiana (daughter of PORTER, Bennet Allen and HIBBARD, Beatrice); died 23 Dec 2008, Toledo, Ohio; was buried Oak Grove Cemetery.

Notes:

A celebration of life service for Florence P. (Porter) Givens, of Bowling Green, will be held at the First Presbyterian Church. Details of the service will be announced later. There is no visitation. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green.

Mrs. Givens, 85, died Tuesday (Dec. 23, 2008) at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo. She served 19 years in the League of Women Voters, and also volunteered for the blood mobile and Wheeled Meals at Wood County Hospital. Mrs. Givens was a member of First Presbyterian Church, where she was an elder and financial secretary. She received her bachelor's degree from Penn State University. Born Dec 14, 1923 in Vincennes, Ind., to Bennet and Beatrice (Hibbard) Porter, she married Stuart Givens in May 1947. He died Aug. 19, 2004.

Surviving are two sons, Willard and Bennet, both of Dublin; a daughter, Martha Sears, Bowling Green; two brothers, Bennet A. Porter, of Hermitage, Tenn., and Ernest R. Porter, Millsboro, Del.; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Dunn Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Memorials may be made to the Bowling Green State University Foundation for the Stuart and Florence Givens History Scholarship Fund, or to the church. Condolences may be sent at www.dunnfuneralhome.com.

(Florence Givens Obituary, Sentinel Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, 26 December 2008, p. 2, columns 1-2. Copied by the Wood County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society.)

Florence Givens funeral notice

A celebration of life service for Florence P. Givens will be held at 2 p.m Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green. Revs. Gary and Mary Jane Saunders will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Givens, 85, of Bowling Green, died Dec. 23, 2008. Memorials may be made to the Bowling Green State University Foundation for the Stuart & Florence Givens History Scholarship Fund or to the church. Condolences may be sent at www.dunnfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are being handled by Dunn Funeral Home.

(Florence Givens Funeral Notice, Sentinel Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, 29 January 2009, p. 2, column 1. Copied by the Wood County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society.)

Florence married Living [Group Sheet]

Children:

Generation: 2

2. PORTER, Bennet Allen was born 12 Jul 1892, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Bennet — HIBBARD, Beatrice. Beatrice was born Abt 1900. [Group Sheet]
3.
HIBBARD, Beatrice was born Abt 1900.
Children:

1. PORTER, Florence A. was born 14 Dec 1923, Vincennes, Indiana; died 23 Dec 2008, Toledo, Ohio; was buried Oak Grove Cemetery.

Living

Living