Obituary from The Ogden Standard Examiner (Ogden, UT) - June 8, 1965.
Mrs. Virginia Paull Porter Howell Tomkinson, 60, died this morning at the Dee Hospital of natural causes.
Mrs. Tomkinson was born June 28, 1904, in Logan, a daughter of Arthur and Gertrude Paull Porter Sr.
She was a member of the LDS Twenty-ninth Ward, Relief Society teacher, Junior Sunday School teacher and active in genealogical work. She served a mission in California from 1927 to 1928. She was a member of the National Association of Retired Civil Service Employees and had been a clerk-typist at Hill Air Force Base.
She assisted in compiling Ogden history for the Utah Guide and formerly worked for the Ogden Standard-Examiner as a proofreader and at Ogden Arsenal. She taught school at Ashton, Idaho and Madison School in Ogden.
In 1930 she was married to Harry G Howell in Montana. He died May 11, 1943. She was married to Harry Tomkinson. They were later divorced.
Surviving are one son and one daughter, John F. Howell, Ogden; and Mrs. David C (Bonnie) Eldridge, North Ogden; six grandchildren, her father of Rexburg, her stepmother, Mrs. Nell Child Porter, Ogden; three half brothers, John C., Arthur, and Warren Porter, Rexburg; two sisters, Mrs. Mariner (Jessie) Morrell, Rexburg; Mrs. Rodney (Gertrude) Gifford, Ashton, Idaho; four half-sisters, Mrs. Ronald (Louise) Clarke, Clarkston, Utah; Mrs. John (Mary Nell) Baronowsky, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Keith (Anne) Zollinger and Mrs. Terrell (Margaret) Arnold, Rexburg.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Myers Mortuary with Bishop John Holmes of the Tweny-ninth Ward officiating. Burial in Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch.
Some additional history:
Virginia's mother died of blood poisoning when she was just two years old. Her father remarried and Virginia, with her two sisters, was raised by their father and stepmother in Rexburg, Idaho along with eight half-siblings.
On March 5, 1927 Virginia left for a mission for the LDS Church in California. She served until April 3, 1929 when she returned home. She married Harry Gilbert Howell on August 23, 1930 in Dillon, Montana.
Harry and Virginia lived in Ogden, Utah where Harry worked as an explosive operator at the U. S. Arsenal. Harry died in 1943. He was 53 years old.
Mrs. Virginia Paull Porter Howell Tomkinson, 60, died this morning at the Dee Hospital of natural causes.
Mrs. Tomkinson was born June 28, 1904, in Logan, a daughter of Arthur and Gertrude Paull Porter Sr.
She was a member of the LDS Twenty-ninth Ward, Relief Society teacher, Junior Sunday School teacher and active in genealogical work. She served a mission in California from 1927 to 1928. She was a member of the National Association of Retired Civil Service Employees and had been a clerk-typist at Hill Air Force Base.
She assisted in compiling Ogden history for the Utah Guide and formerly worked for the Ogden Standard-Examiner as a proofreader and at Ogden Arsenal. She taught school at Ashton, Idaho and Madison School in Ogden.
In 1930 she was married to Harry G Howell in Montana. He died May 11, 1943. She was married to Harry Tomkinson. They were later divorced.
Surviving are one son and one daughter, John F. Howell, Ogden; and Mrs. David C (Bonnie) Eldridge, North Ogden; six grandchildren, her father of Rexburg, her stepmother, Mrs. Nell Child Porter, Ogden; three half brothers, John C., Arthur, and Warren Porter, Rexburg; two sisters, Mrs. Mariner (Jessie) Morrell, Rexburg; Mrs. Rodney (Gertrude) Gifford, Ashton, Idaho; four half-sisters, Mrs. Ronald (Louise) Clarke, Clarkston, Utah; Mrs. John (Mary Nell) Baronowsky, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Keith (Anne) Zollinger and Mrs. Terrell (Margaret) Arnold, Rexburg.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Myers Mortuary with Bishop John Holmes of the Tweny-ninth Ward officiating. Burial in Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch.
Some additional history:
Virginia's mother died of blood poisoning when she was just two years old. Her father remarried and Virginia, with her two sisters, was raised by their father and stepmother in Rexburg, Idaho along with eight half-siblings.
On March 5, 1927 Virginia left for a mission for the LDS Church in California. She served until April 3, 1929 when she returned home. She married Harry Gilbert Howell on August 23, 1930 in Dillon, Montana.
Harry and Virginia lived in Ogden, Utah where Harry worked as an explosive operator at the U. S. Arsenal. Harry died in 1943. He was 53 years old.
Obituary from The Ogden Standard Examiner (Ogden, UT) - June 8, 1965.
Mrs. Virginia Paull Porter Howell Tomkinson, 60, died this morning at the Dee Hospital of natural causes.
Mrs. Tomkinson was born June 28, 1904, in Logan, a daughter of Arthur and Gertrude Paull Porter Sr.
She was a member of the LDS Twenty-ninth Ward, Relief Society teacher, Junior Sunday School teacher and active in genealogical work. She served a mission in California from 1927 to 1928. She was a member of the National Association of Retired Civil Service Employees and had been a clerk-typist at Hill Air Force Base.
She assisted in compiling Ogden history for the Utah Guide and formerly worked for the Ogden Standard-Examiner as a proofreader and at Ogden Arsenal. She taught school at Ashton, Idaho and Madison School in Ogden.
In 1930 she was married to Harry G Howell in Montana. He died May 11, 1943. She was married to Harry Tomkinson. They were later divorced.
Surviving are one son and one daughter, John F. Howell, Ogden; and Mrs. David C (Bonnie) Eldridge, North Ogden; six grandchildren, her father of Rexburg, her stepmother, Mrs. Nell Child Porter, Ogden; three half brothers, John C., Arthur, and Warren Porter, Rexburg; two sisters, Mrs. Mariner (Jessie) Morrell, Rexburg; Mrs. Rodney (Gertrude) Gifford, Ashton, Idaho; four half-sisters, Mrs. Ronald (Louise) Clarke, Clarkston, Utah; Mrs. John (Mary Nell) Baronowsky, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Keith (Anne) Zollinger and Mrs. Terrell (Margaret) Arnold, Rexburg.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Myers Mortuary with Bishop John Holmes of the Tweny-ninth Ward officiating. Burial in Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch.
Some additional history:
Virginia's mother died of blood poisoning when she was just two years old. Her father remarried and Virginia, with her two sisters, was raised by their father and stepmother in Rexburg, Idaho along with eight half-siblings.
On March 5, 1927 Virginia left for a mission for the LDS Church in California. She served until April 3, 1929 when she returned home. She married Harry Gilbert Howell on August 23, 1930 in Dillon, Montana.
Harry and Virginia lived in Ogden, Utah where Harry worked as an explosive operator at the U. S. Arsenal. Harry died in 1943. He was 53 years old.
Mrs. Virginia Paull Porter Howell Tomkinson, 60, died this morning at the Dee Hospital of natural causes.
Mrs. Tomkinson was born June 28, 1904, in Logan, a daughter of Arthur and Gertrude Paull Porter Sr.
She was a member of the LDS Twenty-ninth Ward, Relief Society teacher, Junior Sunday School teacher and active in genealogical work. She served a mission in California from 1927 to 1928. She was a member of the National Association of Retired Civil Service Employees and had been a clerk-typist at Hill Air Force Base.
She assisted in compiling Ogden history for the Utah Guide and formerly worked for the Ogden Standard-Examiner as a proofreader and at Ogden Arsenal. She taught school at Ashton, Idaho and Madison School in Ogden.
In 1930 she was married to Harry G Howell in Montana. He died May 11, 1943. She was married to Harry Tomkinson. They were later divorced.
Surviving are one son and one daughter, John F. Howell, Ogden; and Mrs. David C (Bonnie) Eldridge, North Ogden; six grandchildren, her father of Rexburg, her stepmother, Mrs. Nell Child Porter, Ogden; three half brothers, John C., Arthur, and Warren Porter, Rexburg; two sisters, Mrs. Mariner (Jessie) Morrell, Rexburg; Mrs. Rodney (Gertrude) Gifford, Ashton, Idaho; four half-sisters, Mrs. Ronald (Louise) Clarke, Clarkston, Utah; Mrs. John (Mary Nell) Baronowsky, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Keith (Anne) Zollinger and Mrs. Terrell (Margaret) Arnold, Rexburg.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Myers Mortuary with Bishop John Holmes of the Tweny-ninth Ward officiating. Burial in Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch.
Some additional history:
Virginia's mother died of blood poisoning when she was just two years old. Her father remarried and Virginia, with her two sisters, was raised by their father and stepmother in Rexburg, Idaho along with eight half-siblings.
On March 5, 1927 Virginia left for a mission for the LDS Church in California. She served until April 3, 1929 when she returned home. She married Harry Gilbert Howell on August 23, 1930 in Dillon, Montana.
Harry and Virginia lived in Ogden, Utah where Harry worked as an explosive operator at the U. S. Arsenal. Harry died in 1943. He was 53 years old.
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