Marca L. Porter

I miss Mom so much. We as her kids were so blessed to have her for our Dear Mother. She is in a far better place, and feels much better now. I appreciate Doris and Max for letting her stay with them for this past year. I know she enjoyed her stay and the attention she received. I love you all!

I am so blessed that I joined this family. Grandma Porter was a major blessing in our lives and I am so appreciative that I got to be a part of her life. She was a wonderful great-grandma to our kids. She is in a better place now. I appreciate Max and Doris for allowing us into their home weekly this past year to spend time with her. I love you all like my own family.

Marca was always like a mom to me. I am blessed to have known and shared so many good times with her over the years. She was a wonderful grandmother to my sons, Rex and Duke Porter. They loved to pay cards with her, but of course she always won!. She may be gone, but she will never be forgotten. Marca loved her family and was proud of each one of you. I feel so blessed to have had such a gracious, lovely lady as my friend and "mom". I will Miss so very much.

We are so sorry for your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you Michael, Julie and family. I know you will miss your Mom terribly, but we know you have great memories of her which will be with you forever.

Julie and Michael, I am very sorry for the loss of your mother. Even though you had so many years it is always hard to lose your mom. What a blessing for the whole family to have her be at home surrounded by family. She is not really gone because she will always be in your heart.

Although I married into the family, I was never made to feel as an outsider. Marca was one of those rare people that always made you feel the center of attention. She was both a gracious hostess and guest; always inquiring about the welfare of other loved ones and thanking you for allowing her to be part of whatever function was going on, when it was we who were blessed with her presence. Marca had a quiet, solid kind of faith, again; a rare ability to hold steadfast to what she believed yet able to look outside those beliefs and share with those that may be searching truth along another path. No greater evidence of this than the ever changing refrigerator collage. From hither and yon came cards and notes, pictures and drawings. And not just the obligatory holiday ones. But everyday, every season; family wanting to share and connect with their best friend. Every addition would be displayed prominently with equal joy and the older ones reluctantly removed only when space would simply not allow. Like diamonds, we come into this world a spectrum. Some are near flawless, and remain so by avoiding haste and building on what grows the soul. Others, albeit more blemished, learn to use the cuts of life to enhance the light that flows through us until it outshines the flaws. Having come relatively late into the family, I know not from which path Marca came. And it really matters not, for the result is the same; she is now a shinning brilliance amongst the heavens.