Always thinking of others and not himself, Marvin Porter was the person everyone sought out when they needed help.

"He was the kind of person everyone depended on," said his daughter, Marilyn Simmons, of Saxonburg. "He was the kind of guy who would see that things got done."

A veteran of World War II and the Korean War, Mr. Porter remained active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars all his life, keeping financial books for the organizatiaon and participating in the honor guard 21-gun salutes at veterans' funerals.

Mr. Porter, of the Cabot section of Winfield, formerly of Harrison, died Friday at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was 84.

Born May 21, 1924, in Tarentum, he was the son of Charles and Marian McKinney Porter.

Mr. Porter was a 1942 graduate of the former Har-Brack High School and a 1966 graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Banking.

During World War II, he served as a helmsman on the USS Dyess, stationed in Brazil. He also served on a Navy Destroyer DD880 in the Pacific Theater.

"He was very proud of being a veteran," Mrs. Simmons said. "He has two or three notebooks here with newspaper clippings and stories and photos from the war."

He won many service medals, which he had encased in glass to share with his family and friends and to help preserve them.

He was a life member and trustee of the Natrona Heights VFW Post 894.

"He was a real history buff, too," Mrs. Simmons said. "He kept documents on everything."

In addition to collecting Navy memorabilia, he collected old photographs, including family photos.

He worked as a banker for nearly four decades, starting as a teller. He was promoted to assistant manager and finished his career as a vice president. He worked for the former Peoples Bank, now Southwest Bank, in Tarentum, and he worked for Union National Bank, which is now National City. He retired in 1987 after 38 years of service.

He was a former member and director of the Allegheny Valley YMCA; a former member, treasurer and president of the Allegheny Valley YMCA's Men's Club; a former member, director and president of the Allegheny Valley Chamber of Commerce; and a former member, treasurer and president of the Tarentum Area Lions Club.

Mr. Porter was a member of the Natrona Heights Church of the Brethren in Harrison.

In his spare time, he enjoyed traveling and dancing.

Mr. Porter was very active in the Haven Retirement Community, where he lived with his wife, Florence Bergstrom Porter. He had just become the committee chairman for the residents' group.

In addition to his wife and daughter, he is survived by two other daughters, Joyce Nyardy, of Salem, Ohio, and Pamela Ortz, of Cabot; two sisters, Betty Ritter, of Murrysville, and Janice Schiebel, of Cabot; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Services were held Tuesday by Krynicki Funeral Home in the Natrona Heights section of Harrison.

Burial with full military honors followed in the Mount Airy Cemetery, Harrison.