23 Apr 1900 – 5 Oct 1944
Husband of Thomasa (Tess) Blondel Cardon
LOGAN-Funeral services for Wilford D. Porter, 44, professor of journalism, college and extension editor at Utah State Agricultural college, who died Thursday, will be conducted Tuesday at noon in the Logan Fifth LDS chapel by Edgar B. Mitchell, bishop.
Friends may call at the family home, 421 E 4th North, Logan, Monday evening and Tuesday until time of services. Burial will be in the Logan cemetery under direction of the Kenneth Lindquist mortuary, Logan.
Prof. Porter was serving his second term as president of the American Assn. of Agricultural Editors, (A C E), and was the only western man ever to hold this position. He was chairman of meetings held this summer in Washington, D. C., of a special advisory council called to discuss the food information program of the federal government. He also presided at the national conference of A C E June 27-29 at Manhattan, Kan.
He assisted with publication of the national extension service report three times and on six other occasions was called to Washington to assist with information programs of the U S D A. He was author of several articles published in national magazines portraying the part extension service is playing in farms and homes throughout the nation. At U S A C he was editor of all publications and bulletins, chairman of the publications council and advisor for student publications.
He was born April 23, 1900, in Franklin, Ida., a son of Benjamin Preece and Henrietta Jane Dowdle Porter. He attended public schools there and was graduated from the old Brigham Young college in 1918 and from Utah State Agricultural college in 1922. He was a veteran of World War I.
He taught one year at Morgan county high school, Morgan, and five years at South Cache high school, Hyrum, leaving there in 1928 to accept the position of editor and secretary to director of the Utah extension service. He was awarded his master’s degree at Wisconsin university in 1935 and returned to U S A C as head of the journalism department and college editor while retaining his extension duties.
Prof. Porter had served as Logan correspondent for the Salt Lake Tribune, the Deseret News and Associated Press. For six years he had directed publicity for the north Salt Lake junior fat stock show and for countless state and county fund and charity drives.
He was a member of Sigma Delta Chi and Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary journalism fraternities; of Pi Gamma Mu, national honorary social science fraternity, and Epsilon Sigma Phi, national extension fraternity. He was past president of the Logan Kiwanis club, 1941-43, and president in 1936 of the U S A C Faculty Assn.
A member of the L D S church, Prof. Porter was an elder in the Logan Fifth L D S ward; was superintendent four years of the Hyrum L D S stake Sunday school; a member of the Hyrum stake M I A board and for five years he was a member of the Cache L D S stake M I A board.
He married Blondell Cardon of Logan, Oct. 2, 1918, in the Logan L D S temple. Survivors include his widow, a son, Larry C. Porter, Logan; a daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Porter Johnson, Arlington, Va., and four sisters, Mrs. Adelia P. Olsen, Logan; Mrs Ada P. Larsen, Newton; Mrs. Ina P. Hatch, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Verna P. Hyer, Lewiston. A son, Wilford C. Porter, was killed a few years ago in a Logan canyon automobile accident.
-Published in the Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) . 8 Oct 1944, Sun . Page 9
Logan City Cemetery, Logan Utah
