Daisy Porter
Posted: November 16, 2012
COLUMBUS — Daisy Mae Pruitt Porter, 60, died Nov. 5, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital—Golden Triangle. Services are Saturday at 1 p.m. at Providence MB Church with the Rev. James Greenlaw. Burial will follow in Stallion Cemetery. Visitation is today from noon to 6 p.m. at Carter’s of Columbus. Mrs. Porter was born Jan. 3, 1952, to the late Davzee Pruitt and Annie Mae Richardson. She was a member of Providence MB Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her siblings, Jessie and Junior Fulton, and Dorothy Henry. Survivors include her husband, Eddie Porter Sr. of Columbus; children, Marie Wiley, Charlie Porter III, Vickie Harris and Sonia Porter, all of Columbus, Eddie Porter Jr. of Tucson, Ariz., and Drodrick Porter of D’Iberville; sister, Helen Jones of St. Louis; 26 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Pallbearers are Joseph Ellis, James Wiley, Henry Hayes, Walter Thomas, Roger Staples and Jermaine Phinizee.