Anaheim Hills, CA

SUSAN D. PORTER, beloved wife and BEST FRIEND of Husband DAN B. PORTER, has after a prolonged illness, joined her Savior Jesus Christ, mother Callie, family and friends in Heaven. She will be missed by all who knew her.

Susan was born on March 17, 1945, in Glendale, California to Cleburn and Callie Tillman, where he was serving with the U.S. Army Air Corps. The family lived in Sunland, California, for 10 years before being transferred by Hughes Aircraft to Tucson, Arizona, where she attended elementary school and graduated with honors from Rincon High School. While at high school, she was selected by the American Field Service to be a foreign exchange student to Cordoba, Argentina.

After the unexpected death of her father, Susan enrolled and graduated early with honors from Northern Arizona University. While there she also attended University classes in Guadalajara, Mexico. Susan met and married her husband, Dan Porter, a Military Intelligence Officer, while he was in graduate school in Arizona.

They moved to Anaheim, California, where Susan was a graduate assistant at Cal State University. She also taught Spanish at Western High School before enrolling at WSU College of Law. After graduating from law school, she passed the California, Arizona and Washington D.C. bar exams. She then began a30-year career as aFamily Law Specialist and served as a Judge Pro Tem in Superior Court. Susan was a member of the Orange County Bar Association Family Law section. She also belonged to the Lincoln Club and was a member of the Spanish outreach committee. She was a 30-year member of Foothill Family Church.

Susan and her husband were world travelers having many exciting adventures. After visiting family in Sweden they traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia to observe the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Days, explored the Middle East, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Jordan and visited Europe before and after divided Germany and Berlin. They had an audience with Pope St. Paul VI and had New Year’s midnight mass in Westminster Abby, London. They have walked the Holy Land, held Panda Bears in the Tibetan highlands and climbed Machu Picchu, Peru. Sue has felt a Tiger and fed the Andalusian Dancing Stallions in Vienna, Austria. She has ridden horses in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. She has done all this and raised her own horses in California.

Susan was loved by her “Best Friend” and husband of sixty years. “Tootie”, we love you and your memory will always be ablessing. Until we meet again, the path forward will be more difficult without the light of your smile to guide the way.

Cremation by Trident Society. Susan is survived by her husband Dan, and sister, Sandra Woods.