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Orin Porter Black

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Orin Porter Black

Birth
Colonia Pacheco, Casas Grandes Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Death
24 Feb 2004 (aged 93)
Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Working for thirty-four years for Metropolitan life Insurance Company and later for Salt Lake County, Orin was a LDS bishop twice and a stake patriarch for twenty-seven years. He and his wife served a South Carolina Colombia Mission. He particularly loved working with young men in the priesthood, always teaching principles of hard work, honesty, integrity and generosity. An avid sports fan as both a participant and spectator, he treasured his education at Jordan High School and Brigham Young University. A champion cowboy with a great love for horses, Orin raised a large vegetable garden and freely shared his produces. Born in Pacheco, Mexico to Morley Larsen Black and Lydia Ellen Porter, Orin married Vanice Beck on June 16, 1936 in the Salt Lake Temple. Preceding him in death, on June 27, 2001, he provided constant loving care during Vanice long illness. They are the parents of seven children: Dr. O. Brent Black (Sally, deceased); Mareid (L. Brent) Horton, serving in Greece Athens Mission; Marlene (Lee C.,) Rasmussen; Phyllis (Dr. David J.) Sperry; Dr. Randy R. (Jan) Black; Dr. Jerry B. (Debbie) Black; Janet (Walter B.) Brooks; 32 grandchildren and 76 great grandchildren. Surviving siblings include Gus, Dall (Joy), Raline Metcalf, Darlene Billings, and Rachel Black. He had eleven brothers and sisters and thirteen half brothers and sisters.
Working for thirty-four years for Metropolitan life Insurance Company and later for Salt Lake County, Orin was a LDS bishop twice and a stake patriarch for twenty-seven years. He and his wife served a South Carolina Colombia Mission. He particularly loved working with young men in the priesthood, always teaching principles of hard work, honesty, integrity and generosity. An avid sports fan as both a participant and spectator, he treasured his education at Jordan High School and Brigham Young University. A champion cowboy with a great love for horses, Orin raised a large vegetable garden and freely shared his produces. Born in Pacheco, Mexico to Morley Larsen Black and Lydia Ellen Porter, Orin married Vanice Beck on June 16, 1936 in the Salt Lake Temple. Preceding him in death, on June 27, 2001, he provided constant loving care during Vanice long illness. They are the parents of seven children: Dr. O. Brent Black (Sally, deceased); Mareid (L. Brent) Horton, serving in Greece Athens Mission; Marlene (Lee C.,) Rasmussen; Phyllis (Dr. David J.) Sperry; Dr. Randy R. (Jan) Black; Dr. Jerry B. (Debbie) Black; Janet (Walter B.) Brooks; 32 grandchildren and 76 great grandchildren. Surviving siblings include Gus, Dall (Joy), Raline Metcalf, Darlene Billings, and Rachel Black. He had eleven brothers and sisters and thirteen half brothers and sisters.

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