Katherine Orvis Porter, 78, of Vero Beach, Florida, passed away October 17, 2025. Kathie was a kind, caring, funny, and loving wife. She was the daughter of Richard and Helen Orvis Valentine Porter. She was born in Boston Massachusetts where she went to college and began her career in the field of Finance. She later lived in California, working as a certified financial planner with clients that were well known entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. She later semi-retired, moving from California, eventually to make her home in Vero Beach Florida in 2004 where she met her Husband David. This was just in time for Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne which 3 months later destroyed her new home, from which she recovered quickly. With her husband she enjoyed traveling the Eastern U.S. in their motor home, watching dolphins and manatees frolic from her porch, skiing, sailing, cruising, knitting and many other activities. She was predeceased by her Mother, Father, and Brother Robert (Bob) Porter. She is survived by her loving husband David W Johnston. A poem recently found in her papers describes her perfectly:

A little twinkling of the eye, as blue as April in the sky.
A little look shy and demure,
But what it means I’m not sure.
How much she knows I cannot tell,
I know she knows I like her well.
If she grows up then as she is now,
how fortunate will be those she loves.
Little girls grow to women, sad but true.
How much we lose because they do.
Unless when grown they chance to be,
as nice a little Kathie P.

{And that she was. DWJ 2025}
By Richard Porter, her father in 1954

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