Dorothy Porter Griffin

GRIFFIN, DOROTHY PORTER (1902 ~ 1985). Dorothy Porter Griffin, wife of Meade Felix Griffin, was born in Austin, Texas on April 16, 1902. She was the daughter of the Reverend David Knox Porter and Claude Scott Porter. Mr. Porter was pastor of the Hotchkiss Methodist Church, which was a forerunner of the present University United Methodist Church.

In 1926, she was a graduate in Public School Music from Northwestern University, and a 1945 graduate from New York University in Guidance and Personnel. She married Judge Meade F. Griffin, of the Texas Supreme Court in 1950.

Mrs. Griffin was past president of The American History Club, The Women's Symphony League, the Women of St. David's Church, The Austin State Official Ladies and was president of Stephen F. Austin Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She was a member of the Pan American Round Table, The Austin Lawyers' Wives Club and The Austin Women's Club. She was a past member of the National Corporation of Save the Children Federation and a member of DAR Chapter of Andrew Carthorse Chapter.

Information taken from Texas State Cemetery file materials.