Emily Beth Worlton Porter

Emily Beth Worlton Porter

Emily Beth Worlton Porter passed away Saturday, August 28, 2010. She was born in Rexburg, Idaho on October 18, 1924 to Joel and Elsie Bean Worlton.

She spent a happy childhood in Sugar City, Idaho. On her 18th birthday, she was hired as a telegraph operator for the Union Pacific Railroad. After the Second World War, she served in the Southern States Mission. Upon her return to Blackfoot, Idaho, where her parents had moved while she was gone, she met her soul mate and eternal companion, a dairy farmer from Morgan, Utah, Joseph Verle Porter. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on November 14, 1949. Her husband was called back into the Army for the Korean War and their first baby was born in an Army hospital at Ft. Lewis, Washington. Upon their release, they returned to the farm in Morgan, where they had four more children. They moved to the West Point area and raised their family in a historic home there. Four more children were born to them and they raised seven to maturity. Over the years they had many different people live with them.

Beth served in many callings including stake and ward Relief Society President, Primary and Young Women''s President, Ogden Temple worker, and she served many years as a visiting teacher. She and her husband were stake and ward extraction directors. She was also a 4-H leader and Clearfield High PTSA President. She and her husband served three missions to California, plus three months on an Indian reservation. They also sent six of their children on missions. She published five hard-bound family histories. She spent her last years volunteering in her daughter''s preschool and was loved by many children as "Grandma Porter". She loved swimming, quilting, and reading. Her greatest joy was in her wonderful family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 2003, infant twin daughters, Mary and Martha, twin granddaughters and a great-granddaughter.

She is survived by three sons and four daughters: John Porter, Renton, WA; T.R. Porter, Buena Vista, VA; Stephen Porter, North Ogden; Jean Schnebly, Mesa, AZ; Verla Seipel, Orem; Lael Wall, Layton; Eve Matheson, Clearfield. She also has 43 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She leaves three brothers, Jack, Reid and Tom Worlton and one sister, Arla Saunders.

Funeral services will be held Friday, September 3, 2010 at 11 a.m. at Clearfield 2nd Ward, 1175 E. 1225 So. Friends may visit family Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Lindquist''s Layton Mortuary, 1867 No. Fairfield Road and Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church. Interment, West Point City Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the LDS Humanitarian Center, Missionary Fund or the Perpetual Education Fund.