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Ellen Louise PORTERFIELD THROCKMORTON

Stinnett (Sunset Memorial) Cemetery
Hutchinson County,
Texas

Benjamin Lee
January 7, 1936-August 5, 2009

Please see military marker

Ellen Louise
January 16, 1942-January 9, 2011

Married March 18, 1961

Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary for Ben
STINNETT - Ben Throckmorton Sr., 73, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, in Panhandle.

Services will be at noon Saturday in First Christian Church. Burial will be in Stinnett Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.

Benjamin Lee Throckmorton Sr. was born Jan. 7, 1936, in Borger to Carroll Victoria Jones and James Webb Throckmorton II. He was a retired electrician and a Mason. He married Ellen Porterfield on March 18, 1961, in Frisco, Colo.

He was preceded in death by his father.

Survivors include his wife, Ellen; two sons, Ben Throckmorton Jr. of Stinnett and Edward Throckmorton of Albuquerque, N.M.; a daughter, Virginia Hall and husband Curtis of Fritch; his mother, Caroll Throckmorton of Stinnett; a brother, James Throckmorton III of Stinnett; three sisters, Jessie Poss of Eldorado, Okla., and Grace Kaslon and Hallie Throckmorton, both of Stinnett; and four grandchildren, Lee Throckmorton of Stinnett, Bethany Johnstone and Saydee Throckmorton, both of Borger, and Ashton Hall of Fritch.

The family suggests memorials be to St. Ann's Nursing Home, P.O. Box 1179, Panhandle, TX 79068; or First Christian Church in Stinnett.

Viewing will be in Brown's Chapel in Stinnett.

Send personal condolences at www.brownfuneraldirectors.net.

Published in the Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 7, 2009

*Obituary for Ellen
STINNETT - Ellen Louise Porterfield Throckmorton, 68, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Christian Church in Stinnett. Burial will be in Stinnett Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors of Borger.

Ellen was born Jan. 16, 1942, in Wichita, Kan., to Ralph and Virginia Mae Sadler Porterfield. She married Ben Throckmorton Sr. on March 18, 1961, in Frisco. She was a deputy clerk for Hutchinson County.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ben, on Aug. 5, 2009; and a sister, Elaine Schlesslman.

Survivors include two sons, Ben Throckmorton Jr. of Stinnett and Edward Throckmorton of Albuquerque, N.M.; a daughter, Virginia Hall and husband Curtis of Fritch; four grandchildren, Lee Throckmorton of Stinnett, Bethany Johnstone and Saydee Throckmorton, both of Borger, and Ashton Hall of Fritch; a brother, Roger Porterfield and wife Mary of Ignacio, Colo.; and her mother-in-law, Caroll Throckmorton of Stinnett.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to First Christian Church of Stinnett, 200 N. Main, P.O. Box 1316, Stinnett, TX 79083.

Leave online condolences at www.brownfuneraldirectors.net.

Published in the Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 12, 2011

Contributed on 11/11/20 by neldapat
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