Age 13. Daughter of Dee and Laura (McBryde). The death Angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dee Porter Saturday night about 8 o'clock and took away a beloved member of the family circle, Bobbie Lee, 13 year old daughter. Her death resulted from blood poison which developed in an injured knee suffered several days before her death when the gear of a car in which she was riding struck her in the knee.
Bobbie Lee made friends and was loved by all who knew her. She was a student of the seventh grade and a popular favorite with her classmates and teachers. She was very bright, made good grades, well behaved, mannerly and very talented. She served as assistant libraian for the grammar school.
Survivors desides her bereft parents are four sisters, Audrey, Ima Jean, Elizabeth, and Lufawn, and two brothers, Iris and Chester.
But the loved ones and friends of Bobbie Lee need not be grieved, only for her presence, for she is at rest. A short time before her soul to flight she uttered the words, "Goodbye everybody, I see the angels coming after me." Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church, conducted by W.D.Ivy and Rev. Alms, with a large concourse of relatives and friends attending to pay last tribute.
Interment was in the local cemetery with Oakley Metcalf Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Six of Bobbie Lee's classmates served as pallbearers. They were Prestige Ivy, Marlin Thomas, Avery Conner, Jpohn I. Steele, Robert Knight, and Andrew DeWoody, Jr., assisted by the high scool principal, Robert Gillispe.
The choir consisted of grammar school students, led by Bobbie Lee's art and arithmatic teacher, Miss Gladys Gates.
Published in the Huntington Weekly News, 6 Nov 1936.
Bobbie Lee made friends and was loved by all who knew her. She was a student of the seventh grade and a popular favorite with her classmates and teachers. She was very bright, made good grades, well behaved, mannerly and very talented. She served as assistant libraian for the grammar school.
Survivors desides her bereft parents are four sisters, Audrey, Ima Jean, Elizabeth, and Lufawn, and two brothers, Iris and Chester.
But the loved ones and friends of Bobbie Lee need not be grieved, only for her presence, for she is at rest. A short time before her soul to flight she uttered the words, "Goodbye everybody, I see the angels coming after me." Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church, conducted by W.D.Ivy and Rev. Alms, with a large concourse of relatives and friends attending to pay last tribute.
Interment was in the local cemetery with Oakley Metcalf Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Six of Bobbie Lee's classmates served as pallbearers. They were Prestige Ivy, Marlin Thomas, Avery Conner, Jpohn I. Steele, Robert Knight, and Andrew DeWoody, Jr., assisted by the high scool principal, Robert Gillispe.
The choir consisted of grammar school students, led by Bobbie Lee's art and arithmatic teacher, Miss Gladys Gates.
Published in the Huntington Weekly News, 6 Nov 1936.
Age 13. Daughter of Dee and Laura (McBryde). The death Angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dee Porter Saturday night about 8 o'clock and took away a beloved member of the family circle, Bobbie Lee, 13 year old daughter. Her death resulted from blood poison which developed in an injured knee suffered several days before her death when the gear of a car in which she was riding struck her in the knee.
Bobbie Lee made friends and was loved by all who knew her. She was a student of the seventh grade and a popular favorite with her classmates and teachers. She was very bright, made good grades, well behaved, mannerly and very talented. She served as assistant libraian for the grammar school.
Survivors desides her bereft parents are four sisters, Audrey, Ima Jean, Elizabeth, and Lufawn, and two brothers, Iris and Chester.
But the loved ones and friends of Bobbie Lee need not be grieved, only for her presence, for she is at rest. A short time before her soul to flight she uttered the words, "Goodbye everybody, I see the angels coming after me." Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church, conducted by W.D.Ivy and Rev. Alms, with a large concourse of relatives and friends attending to pay last tribute.
Interment was in the local cemetery with Oakley Metcalf Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Six of Bobbie Lee's classmates served as pallbearers. They were Prestige Ivy, Marlin Thomas, Avery Conner, Jpohn I. Steele, Robert Knight, and Andrew DeWoody, Jr., assisted by the high scool principal, Robert Gillispe.
The choir consisted of grammar school students, led by Bobbie Lee's art and arithmatic teacher, Miss Gladys Gates.
Published in the Huntington Weekly News, 6 Nov 1936.
Bobbie Lee made friends and was loved by all who knew her. She was a student of the seventh grade and a popular favorite with her classmates and teachers. She was very bright, made good grades, well behaved, mannerly and very talented. She served as assistant libraian for the grammar school.
Survivors desides her bereft parents are four sisters, Audrey, Ima Jean, Elizabeth, and Lufawn, and two brothers, Iris and Chester.
But the loved ones and friends of Bobbie Lee need not be grieved, only for her presence, for she is at rest. A short time before her soul to flight she uttered the words, "Goodbye everybody, I see the angels coming after me." Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church, conducted by W.D.Ivy and Rev. Alms, with a large concourse of relatives and friends attending to pay last tribute.
Interment was in the local cemetery with Oakley Metcalf Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Six of Bobbie Lee's classmates served as pallbearers. They were Prestige Ivy, Marlin Thomas, Avery Conner, Jpohn I. Steele, Robert Knight, and Andrew DeWoody, Jr., assisted by the high scool principal, Robert Gillispe.
The choir consisted of grammar school students, led by Bobbie Lee's art and arithmatic teacher, Miss Gladys Gates.
Published in the Huntington Weekly News, 6 Nov 1936.
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