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CLYDE was a marketing executive with the Mobil Oil Corporation for 34 years until his retirement in June, 1974. He always like the say the he was in the "Canned Oil Business", that working in Mobil's refined products end of the business that sold Mobil's retail products. His jobs with Mobil took the family from Los Angeles, California to Seattle, Washington to San Francisco, California to Glendale, California to Wayzata, Minnesota and to Darien, Connecticut.

His marketing jobs allowed CLYDE to travel extensively through the United Sates and the world (Just of the few places he visited where the Far East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong), when time permitted FLORENCE would accompany him on these travels. He made friends from all around the world and he and FLORENCE maintained those friendships even after he retired. After his retirement from Mobil, they built a custom designed home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. Their home overlooks the 14th hole of the golf course. The Dunes Golf & Beach Club has always been ranked as one of the top hundred golf course in the United States. It 13th hole is it signature hole, as well as being considered one of the 18 holes in the United States. Their home in Myrtle Beach has served as a gathering place for their four sons and families during the summers. With the golf course, ocean and other attractions, Myrtle Beach offered a great place for the family to gather. CLYDE and FLORENCE enjoyed their grandchildren and always looked forward to the yearly summer visits. Also, the rounds of golf with his sons always seemed to bring a special smile to his face.

Throughout , CLYDE and FLORENCE where extremely devoted parents to their four sons, and both donated freely of their time to many community functions. These ranged from the Dad's Club in Glendale, California to the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles, California to the United Way of Horry County, South Carolina. With each of these activities he always strived to make each organization better and more productive than they had ever been before. CLYDE served as President of The Dunes Golf & Beach Club (1984 to 1987), and was instrumental in developing and overseeing the complete rebuilding of the club house facilities, which now represents one of the finest facilities of its kind in Myrtle Beach.

Their retirement years did not bring total relaxation, both FLORENCE and CLYDE maintained they commitment to their new community, by becoming involved in the Chamber of Commerce, Coastal Carolina College, the local catholic church and the United Way. CLYDE led the United Way from a back door operation just struggling to survive to one of the most successful organizations in the State of South Carolina. FLORENCE a master bridge player, has devoted many hours in organizing bridge tournaments for charity.

Posted on Thu, Dec. 20, 2007
'Mr. United Way' Clyde Port dies at 92
By Mike Cherney
The Sun News
Clyde W. Port, a founding member of Waccamaw Community Foundation and former president of the United Way of Horry County, died Tuesday. He was 92.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, with burial in North Dakota.
Port, born in Casselton, N.D., was remembered for his passion for helping people and the professionalism he brought to Myrtle Beach's nonprofit organizations after working for Mobil Oil Co. for 37 years.
As a board member of United Way, Port led the fundraising effort for the nonprofit organization's new building, which was built in 1995. In 1990, he served a one-year term as president for the group.
"He is one of the best examples of a humanitarian I have ever known," said Olivia Garren, the current president of United Way, who has known Port since 1975, the year he moved to Myrtle Beach. "Horry County is very, very fortunate that he moved to this area."
Port served on the executive committee of the United Way for 14 years. When he arrived, the organization had cramped offices on the second floor of a building in downtown Conway, Garren said.
Now, the United Way has a spacious one-story building in the Atlantic Center Industrial Park off U.S. 501. Garren said the building is big enough that the nonprofit can rent out half the offices.
In 2001, Port was dubbed "Mr. United Way" by then-President Allan Blum at a luncheon for his help in the organization's charity drive that year. This year, the United Way is raising nearly $1.5 million for community groups.
Jonathan Kresken, the executive director of Waccamaw Community Foundation, which will give $1.3 million in grants to local groups this year, said Port was able to talk to anyone, whether it was high-ranking government officials or homeless people on the street.
As head of the grants committee, the body that distributes some of the foundation's money to various local organizations, Port would visit nearly every organization to make sure they would use the money wisely.
"He was passionate about not just giving people a hand out, but giving them a hand up," Kresken said. "He wanted to teach them there was a way they could make the community a better place."
In 1987, he was chosen as the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce's Citizen of the Year. He was president of The Dunes Club from 1983 to 1985.
He played golf until he was 90.
"I got to play in the last round," said Tom Port, one of his four sons. "He played right here at The Dunes. At the end he said, 'I think this is it.'"

Port, Clyde W.
MYRTLE BEACH | Clyde Wendell Port, 92, died Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center. He was born January 19, 1915 in Casselton, North Dakota, the son of the late Frederick A. and Loraine Mallough Port. Mr. Port graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1937. He retired from Mobil Oil Company after 37 years of service and moved to Myrtle Beach in 1975. Clyde was very involved in his community and served 14 years on the Executive Committee of the United Way of Horry and as president in 1990. The Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce named him Citizen of The Year in 1987. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Dunes Golf and Beach Club in 1982, and served as president of The Dunes Club from 1983 through 1985. He was also a founding member of Waccamaw Community Foundation. Surviving are his wife of 67 years, Florence M. Port; his four sons, Frederick R. Port and his wife, Linda, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Thomas C. Port and his wife, Kathy, of Atlanta, Paul A. Port and his wife, Rochelle, of Cortdlandt, N.Y., and C. Scott Port and his wife, Mary, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and his 11 grandchildren; and nine great -grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m., Friday, December 21, 2007 at St. Andrew's Catholic Church. He will be buried beside his father in North Dakota. Visitation will be from 4 until 6 p.m. Thursday, December 20, 2007 at McMillan-Small Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the United Way of Horry County, P.O. Box 673, Conway, SC 29528 or St. Andrew Catholic School, 3701 N. Kings Hwy., Myrtle Beach, SC 29577. Please sign a guest book at www.msfh.net and at Myrtle BeachOnline.com. McMillan-Small Funeral Home, 449-3396, is serving the family. Published in The Sun News on 12/19/2007.

Funeral Mass for Mr. Clyde W. Port, will now be held at 10 a.m. Friday, December 21, 2007 in St. Andrew's Catholic Church. McMillan-Small Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Published in The Sun News on 12/20/2007.
(Research):State of North Dakota, Birth Certificate Number 1540, Registered Number 43.
(Medical):Fell at home in kitchen striking head on cabinet, a few hours later while in bed, his wife noticed heavy snoring and was unable to wake him, rushed to hospital and never regained conscience ness. Brain hemorrhage, cardiac arrest, stroke.

Buried:
Event Description: Burial attended by: Frederick R. Port, Thomas C. Port, Paul A. Port, C. Scott Port, Michael S. Port & Eric A. Port. He was buried on what would have been his 68th wedding anniversary to Florence M. Szabo.

Died:
Event Description: Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) Stroke

Clyde married Florence Marion SZABO on 12 Jan 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Florence was born on 21 Apr 1917 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; died on 23 Aug 2012 in Myrtle Beach, Horry, South Carolina, USA; was buried on 22 Sep 2012 in Casselton, Cass, North Dakota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Family History of FLORENCE MARION SZABO as conveyed in a letter dated April 15, 1993 to her youngest son, CLYDE SCOTT PORT

FLORENCE MARION PORT

Born in Cleveland, Ohio April 21, 1917, the first daughter of Anna Braun Szabo and Alexander Szabo in her home on West 42nd Street. Sister Vera Anne was born February 12, 1919. Lived at that address until about 1921 and moved to Woodward Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio. Attended Madison Avenue Grammar School until March, 1925. Moved to the home of grandparents Joseph and Mary Braun on Scarbourough Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Attended Roxboro Grammar School.

Lived with grandparents until end of September, 1925 when the family moved to Hollywood, California. Anna and Alexander bought a home on 2030 North Berendo Street. Attended Los Feliz Grammer School, Thomas Starr King Junior High School and John Marshall High School graduating in June, 1934. Went to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and graduated in June, 1938, majoring in Political Science and minor in economics.

In September, 1934 I met future husband at UCLA in the Freshman Logic Class. He sat behind me. Started to date March 17, 1937. We were good friends all that time. After graduation in June, 1938, I attended business school to improve shorthand and typing. I took the California Civil Service Test and worked in the ax Franchise Department in downtown Los Angeles and as well at the Motor Vehicle Department. Then I obtained a job with the Bank of America as a stenographer. I work a total of one year.

CLyde Wendall Port and became engaged on my birthday April 21, 1939 on the steps of Royce Hall at UCLA. We were married on January 12, 1940 at Mother of God Counsel Church, located at Vermont and Ambrose in Hollywood, California.

We moved to an apartment on Chevy Chase in Glendale, California after a three day honeymoon trip to Death Valley and Las Vegas. Clyde had a job in the Glendale General Petroleum Station (eventually Mobil).

We were transferred to Seattle, Washington and lived in the Edgewater Apartments on Lake Washington. I got pregnant with Fred in July, 1940. While we lived in Seattle my parents came to visit and we all went on a trip to Vancouver, Canada.

FREDERICK ROBERT PORT was born on April 14, 1941 at the local fish hatchery. We were transferred to San Francisco, California in October, 1941 and rented a house on El Camino Real, Burlingame, the north end of town.

We were then transferred to Los Angeles in September, 1942. We rented a house on 1541 Hillside Drive, Glendale, California. Son THOMAS CLYDE PORT was born on September 4, 1942, son PAUL ALEXANDER PORT was born on December 8, 1946 and son CLYDE SCOTT PORT was born on January 14, 1952, all three sons were born at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

In February, 1954 we moved to 1734 Hillside Drive, Glendale, California. Lived there until we were transferred to Minneapolis, Minnesota in January, 1960. Bought a home on Holdridge Circle, Wayzata, Minnesota. Transferred to New York City in December, 1960 and bought a home on Stony Brook Road South, Darien, Connecticut.

After CLYDE retired from Mobil in 1974, we built a house in MYrtle Beach, South Carolina at 9324 Cove Drive, overlooking the fourteenth and thirteenth holes at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. We moved their in November, 1975.

ALEXANDER SZABO

Born in Miskolc, Hungary, February 28, 1880, Deceased February 12, 1964 at the age of 83 in Arcadia, California, due to a heart attack suffered five days earlier. He came to America in 1906 from Hungary and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

He was furniture maker by profession, which in learned in Miskolc. He served in the Hungarian Army for two years. His three brothers, Joseph, Steve and Louis and four sisters, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan and Eleanor as well as his mother, Julia and father, Daniel, followed Alexander to America some years later. DANIEL SZABO was born in 1848 and died in 1916. Julia Szabo was born in 1851 and died in 1927. Both parents died in Cleveland, Ohio.

Alexander owned a furniture factory which made school furniture, he also owned, along with his brother a meat stand in the West Side Shopping Mall. He also owned a Hupmobile agency for a few years.

Alexander married Anna Braun on June 12, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio. They had two daughters Florence Marion Szabo, born April 21, 1917 and Vera Anne Szabo, born February 12, 1919.

In 1925 they sold their home in Woodward Avenue, Lakewood, Ohio and moved to Hollywood, California. They arrived October 2, 1925. Alexander the bought a 25 acre orange grove in Charter Oaks, California, which he held for a couple of years and then sold it and bought a store building in South Pasadena, California which he rented out. For a few years he also had a sausage factory in the San Fernando Valley and a stand in a large market on Hill Street, Los Angeles.

During the thirties and forties he worked at various custom furniture makers in Los Angeles until he was 65 years old. He then bought 25 acre orange grove in Pacoima, California. They moved from their home at 203 North Berendo Street, Hollywood, California to the ranch after the Second world War, where they lived until 1952. They then moved to Grandview Avenue, Arcadia, California where he lived until he died.

ANNA BRAUN

Born February 22, 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio and died June 5, 1984 in Arcadia, California at the age of 96. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Schdiedle Braun, she had three sisters, Cecilia, Mary and Emma.

Her parents owned a dry goods store on Buckeye road, Cleveland, Ohio for many years, and she worked in the store until she married Alexandr Szabo. She was an expert seamstress and her two girls were always well dressed. She was a true mother and housewife and she and Alexander shared their decisions on all business deals.

She was very devoted to her family and dearly loved her grandchildren (eight). She and Alex were truly devoted to helping their two daughters. Alex made all the furniture in their home as well as the furniture in the homes of their two daughters.

After Alexander died she lived in the home until 1973, when she moved to an apartment in Sierra Madre. Then she moved in with her daughter, Vera, in 1975 due to health problems. After breaking her hip she lived for four years in the St Teresa Nursing Home Durate until her death.

JOSEPH BRAUN

Born in Metzenseifen, Austria Hungary about 1867 and died in 1938. Moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a young boy with his mother and brother, John. His mother was a widow and remarried and had two children Anne and Andrew. He was a glass blower when very young, but had to give it up because it was injurious to his lungs.

He married Mary Schmiedle in St. Mary's Church, Cleveland, Ohio on April 20, 1887. They started a small dry good store on Buckeye Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Mary was milliner by trade and she made hats, many times they were paid in produce, chickens and geese, since people had very little money. They had four girls Anna, Cecilia, Mary and Emma.

He died in 1938 after they had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. At the time of his death he lived on Scarbourough Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio where they had moved in 1917 after he had retired from the store.

For many years he drove his daughter Mary Smayda around to bakery stores which were owned by Mary and her husband Eugene Smayda. His mother died about 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

MARY GIDEON BRAUN

Born in Metzenseifen, Austria Hungary about 1868 and died April 3, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio. Moved to Cleveland, Ohio with her mother and two sisters, Veronica and Katherine. Her mother was a widow. She was about 12 years old when she moved to Cleveland, Ohio. I do not know any thing about her father, except that this was a second marriage and that he was much older.

DANIEL SZABO

Born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1848, died October, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio. He married Julia Kunz about 1876. Had eight children plus three that died at an early age from various illnesses. They lived at 12 Templon Street until they moved to Cleveland, Ohio about 1907. He was a tanner by trade.

JULIA KUHN

Born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1851, died in 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio. I remember her a very kind person a very good cook. She used to take care of us when our mother would go shopping. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with crayons and pad of paper and eating her good homemade doughnuts.

Buried:
Event Description: Buried along side Clyde W. Port. Burial attended by: Frederick R. Port, Thomas C. Port, Paul A. Port, C. Scott & Mary E. Port, Michael S. Port, K.C. Port, Tony Goucher, Justin & Cynthia Goucher, Christopher W. Port

Died:
Event Description: Died at home

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FREDERICK ARTHUR PORT died November 10, 1918 at Casselton, a victim of the World War I flu epidemic. He was a Mason and Knight of Pythias, holding the office of Chancellor Commander. He was a member of St. Stephens choir. At the time of his death, he was an assistant cashier in the Cass County National Bank.
(Research):State of North Dakota, death certificate number 1457, Registered number 12-1918.

THE MEMORIAL SERVICE
Held at St. Stephen's Episcopal
Church, Sunday Afternoon.

Memorial service in honor of Frederick Arthur Port was held at St. Stephens church, in this city, Sunday afternoon last at 3 o'clock. The beautiful little church was well filed with the friends of the departed. While these services were called by the Knights of Pythias, of which deceased was Chancellor Commander at the time of his death, there was a representative at-tendance of Masons, the City Fire Department and of long time acquaintances.

Rev. A. H. Beer, assisted by a full choir, conducted the regular services for such an occasion and they were seemingly more than usually impressive the prayers for the living members of the family mingling touch-ingly with the services in behalf of him who was gone. Rev. Mr. Beer's address of over half an hour was an able exposition of the argument that the deeds of this life are far from being all that a good man possesses-that there is a life beyond to which he has gone and where be will be found by those whom he knew and loved and honored on earth. Mr. Beer recalled the arguments of able opponents of a future life, but opposed them with the reasonings of sainted men and women, and then added to this array of testimony the unequivocal promises of holy writ, forming a sure basis for calm and happy trust in the grandeur and per-fection of the life to come. Mr. Beer's remarks often recalled the interest of the departed young man in questions relating to the church and the future, and because he had known him to be interested in such things and to have constantly aimed to take the right attitude he felt that his example was one worthy to be remembered and followed by his fellow lodge men and friends in general. The speaker closed with an urgent appeal to his hearers to carefully remember the good ways in life and closely to follow in them.
(Medical):Died at home at 8:00 am

Died:
Event Description: Influenza followed by pneumonia

Frederick married Loraine Mearl MALLOUGH on 21 May 1913 in Casselton, Cass, North Dakota, USA. Loraine was born on 13 Aug 1892 in Embden, Cass, North Dakota, USA; died on 30 Jan 1973 in Ridgecrest, Kern, California, USA; was buried on 2 Feb 1973 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Medical):Cerebral arteriosclerosis. Died at 12:09 am.

Buried:
Event Description: Forest Lawn Memorial Park