Bert and Agnes married and lived for years in suburbs of Chicago, where they had daughters, Dorothy Ann, Betty Jane, Elaine and Barbara. When the girls were in their teens near the beginning of WWII, Bert, a Civil Engineer, was sent to El Paso Texas to build a prison. They lived there until years after the war was over and then returned to Illinois. The girls married and scattered. The oldest, Dorothy, met Buford Humphries, an Army Air Force man, while the family lived in El Paso. They married. He became a Colonel in the Strategic Air Command. They had three children. The oldest, a boy Scott's (Ken and Larue Lindberg Prate's son) age, and twin girls Claudia's (Ken and Larue's daughter) age.  Agnes and Bert's youngest daughter Barbara  met a young American of Russian parents right after the war. He was fluent in Russian so was hired by the United Nations to use his knowledge of the Russian language. They went to live in New York City. Larue doesn't know what happened to Betty Jane and Elaine. The War did a great job of scattering families. Agnes and Bert both died in Illinois. At that time Ken and Larue were living in Phoenix.

Here is a little bit of interesting history of Agnes Porter's mother. Dot and Ed's children all called her mother Mae Ma. She was like a grandmother to these kids. Ed's Bert was too young to remember her. She moved to El Paso with Agnes and Bert. She lived to be almost 100 years old. When she was very little her father took the family out West. They were friends with Buffalo Bill or Wild Bill Hicock, Larue can't remember which. Once, when the Indians were on the rampage and all of the settlers were scrambling away, Mae Ma's father refused to budge. The Indians thought he was so brave they sat down with him and smoked a peace pipe and gave him the pipe or one very similar. It was one of Mae Ma's prized possessions. During the war when she was in her late sixties, she worked a nurse aid in a hospital in El Paso. When she moved back to Illinois with Agnes and Bert, in her seventies, she worked as an aid in an old peoples home. She talked about all of those poor old people when there she was older than most of them. Quite a lady.