Notes |
- The Haxtun Harvest, Wednesday, Aug 7, 1974, Haxtun, CO, 56th Year -
No. 32
FRED W. PORTENIER SUCCUMBS AUG. 1; BURIED MONDAY
Friends and relatives of Fred W. Portenier were grieved and saddenedto learn of his death at the Haxtun hospital Thursday morning,
August 1. He suffered a heart attack a few days before his death. Mr.Portenier had been a resident of the Haxtun Rest Home.
Funeral services for Mr. Portenier were held Monday morning, August 5at 10:00 o'clock at the Church of The Brethren. Rev. Russell
Kiester was in charge of the final rites. The organist was Mrs. RalphPeterson. A duet, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Switzer sang "The Old Rugged Cross"and "In the Garden." The pallbearers were: Verl Timm, Richard Hinde,Eldon Johnson, Donald Amack, H.L. Hofmeister and Merle Switzer. Intermentwas in the Haxtun cemetery.
Mr. Portenier was born March 26, 1886 in Logan, Kansas, a s/o Rudolph and Margaret Jane Clampett Portenier. He attended school in
the Logan community. July 8, 1909 he was united in marriage to Goldie MayKing. They moved to a homestead in Lincoln County,
Colorado where they made their home until 1920 when they moved to theHaxtun country. They resided on the farm west of Haxtun until
1945 when they retired from the farm and moved into Haxtun. Mrs.Portenier died April 8, 1957.
June 12, 1958 he married Mrs. Ethel Portenier of El Segundo,California. She passed away in June of 1973. Mr. Portenier was a memberof the Church of The Brethren. Surviving Mr. Portenier are: a daughter,Mrs. Ralph (Evelyn) Burton, Haxtun; one granddaughter, Mrs. Dennis(Velva) Petrell, Las Vegas, Nevada; two grandsons, Reon Burton, Haxtunand Wray Burton, Orange, California; nine great grandchildren; onebrother, Nick Portenier of Howard, Kansas. He was preceded in death byhis parents, one son, one daughter, his wives, Goldie and Ethel, andthree brothers and one sister. Mr. Portenier was of a quietdisposition, an interesting conversationalist and had made friends whosorrow at his passing.
|