Vincent Lamar Porter

Published 5:00 am Friday, June 20, 2008

Services for Vincent Lamar Porter, of Amite, La., are 2 p.m. onSaturday, June 21, at New Zion Union Missionary Baptist Church inBogue Chitto with burial in Bogue Chitto Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 5 p.m. at R.E. Tyler FuneralHome.

Mr. Porter, 58, died June 14, 2008, at Tangi Pines Nursing Centerin Amite. He was born in Independence, La., on Sept. 13, 1948, toHarry Lee Porter and Carlee Porter.

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He was a former deliveryman for Coca-Cola in Houston, Texas.

Preceding him in death were his mother; his brother, Harold Porter;and a sister, Katherine Porter.

Survivors are his father of Hammond, La.; his daughter, VinettaAustin, of Houston; his brothers, Robert Lewis Porter and the Rev.Brian Galloway, both of Houston, and Ronald Porter, of Hammond; hissisters, Jacqueline Woods, of Nassau, Bahamas, Gaynell Andrews andJanice Colvin, both of Houston, Minister Hilda Porter, of Hammond,Sheilda Madkins, of San Antonio, Texas, and Feneshia Walker, of LosAngeles, Calif.