HERMON, N.Y. – Audrey Byron Porter, 95, of Peru, died early Friday, Aug. 3, at her daughter’s home in Hermon, N.Y.

She was born in Dickvale at her family home on Sept. 4, 1911, a daughter of Bernard and Myrtie Putnam. She attended a one-room school in Dickvale and was a nurse and caregiver to many people during her lifetime. She was a housewife and mother who was always ready to feed and help others. She loved big vegetable gardens, flowers, birds, picking berries and music. Her favorite hymn was “His Eye Is On the Sparrow.”

She married Walter Byron in 1933, and he died 43 years later. In 1981, she married Waldo Porter. They enjoyed many winters together in Florida.

She is survived by three daughters, Gloria Ring, and her husband, Rodney, of Mexico, Alice Gordon, and her husband, Gerald, of Stafford Springs, Conn., and Wanda Browning, and her husband, Ralph, of Hermon, N.Y.; 10 grandchildren, Wanda Smith, and husband, Thomas, of Maine, Crystal Sorenson, and husband, Bob, of B.C., Canada, William Brooks of Florida, Randy Brooks, and wife, Kathy, of Maine, Walter Gordon, and wife, Mary Ellen, of Connecticut, Michael Gordon, and wife, Robin, of Connecticut, Brenda Gordon of Connecticut, Robert, Clayton and Rachel Browning of New York; and nine great-grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband, Walter, in 1976; husband, Waldo, in 1992; her only son, Henry Byron; son-in-law, Howard Brooks; grandson, Henry Brooks; and her only sister, Bernadine Putnam.