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Harriett B. Porter was a lifelong Louisville resident, wife and mother, and community volunteer. A former teacher and breast cancer survivor, she promoted cancer prevention and early detection and supported newly diagnosed women. She was particularly vocal in encouraging African American women to get screening for breast cancer - a disease she was first diagnosed with while still in her 30s. Treatment was successful, and she remained cancer free until 2001. Harriett and her husband, Woodford Porter Sr., owned A. D. Porter and Sons Funeral Home, where she was a family care specialist from 1992 - 2002, helping survivors through the grieving process. Harriett was a founding member of the Regional Cancer Center Corporation, a nonprofit citizens' board that helped open the Brown Cancer Center in 1981. She was also active with the American Cancer Society's Reach to Recovery program for breast cancer patients, a member of the Governor's Task Force on Breast Cancer, on the boards of the Louisville Zoo and Louisville Ballet and a member of the Broadway Temple AME Zion Church.
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