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THELMA. Our beloved Mother, Thelma "Mae" Fellows/Porter, 93, passed quietly into eternity surrounded by family, on December 29, 2005, in Salt Lake City, UT. Mae was born in 1912, the third eldest daughter of Lindsey and Nancy Pennington, of Greenup, KY. She and her six sisters grew up as hardy farm girls. (We attribute her longevity to hours of hard work and a diet of fresh produce, cornbread and buttermilk.) Mae received a teaching degree from Moorehead State College, and immediately began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in the Kentucky hills. At the age of eighteen she eloped to marry Oscar Porter, who worked for the Corps of Engineers, and began her family. In 1936 she and Oscar moved to New Mexico, living at Conchas Dam (during the construction of the dam), Albuquerque's South Valley and finally in Rio Rancho, were she lived until 2002. Following the death of Oscar in 1963 she married Paul Fellows who also predeceased her in 1999. Mae was greatly loved and will be fondly remembered for her green eyes, wry sense of humor, love of children, devotion to church, exceptional fishing skills, delicious apple and rhubarb pies and for running Porter's Orchard in Albuquerque's South Valley. She is survived by her three sons and their wives: Benjamin (Ann) of Burleson TX, Raymond (Dorothy), of Montclair, VA, and Robert (Nancy), of Salt Lake City, UT; and her sisters, Ruby Burkhardt of Albuquerque and Marie (Artie) Hardymon and Bess Griffith, both of Greenup KY. Mae has eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Mae was also predeceased by her parents and her sisters, Jean Darnell, Virgie Sturgill, and Hattie Stahl, all of Greenup, KY. Services will be held at French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. on Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 11:00 a.m., preceded by a viewing and fellowship reception at 10:00 a.m. The interment will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. on Edith and Menaul. Friends and acquaintances may share their condolences and memories of Mae with her family at raymondporter@juno.com
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