Services for the Rev. Eddie Porter, of Sontag, are 11 a.m.Wednesday, June 13, at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church inMonticello with burial in Pine Grove Church Cemetery in Sontag.Williams Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Tuesday from 1 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home, withfamily hour from 6 until 7 p.m.

The Rev. Porter, 80, died June 7, 2007, at his residence. He wasborn on May 16, 1927, to Willie Porter and Lee Rinda Porter.

He was a retired minister who pastored Pin Oak Missionary BaptistChurch, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church 550, Shady GroveMissionary Baptist Church and Rosehill Missionary Baptist Church.He was a member of Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Ora Nell Porter;his daughter, Elnora Porter; his brothers, Howard, Calvin, ThomasCharles and LarFate; and his sister, Gussie Porter.

Survivors are his sons, Charles Porter and wife Pamela, ofSouthfield, Mich., Tyrone Porter and wife Josephine, of Sontag,Kenneth Porter and wife Beverly, of Raleigh, N.C., and Paul Porterand wife Wendy, of Olive Branch; his daughters, Vanessa Bowens andhusband Christopher, of Charlotte, N.C., and Thelma Richardson, ofSontag; his brothers, Lincton Porter, of Clinton, ArJulius Porter,of Jackson, Eugene Porter, of Brookhaven, and Lee Lewis, of FortWayne, Ind.; his sisters, Willie Lee Bryant and Nettie Evans, bothof Detroit, Mich., and Nancy Lewis, of Natchez; and his 16grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.