Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Forbus, Julia March 12, 1979
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Anniston Star
Mrs. Julie Forbus dies at age 102 LINEVILLE A homemaker and farmer who lived all 
her life in Clay County, died Monday at the age of 102. Mrs. Julie Forbus, widow 
for the past 66 years of Hilmon Forbus, carried on farming and homemaking after 
the death of her husband, a Lineville farmer. Her parents, the late James Tolen 
Mitchell and Carrie Newsome Mitchell, were believed to be among Clay County's 
original services for Mrs. Forbus will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Mount Olive 
Baptist Church in Clay County with the Rev. A.O. Burdette, the Rev. Wayne 
Stevens and the Rev. Richard East officiating. Burial will be in adjoining 
cemetery with Benefield Funeral Home of Lineville in charge. The body will be at 
the funeral home until one hour prior to Mrs. Forbus died at the Lineville 
Geriatrics Center where she had been Jor the past six years. Survivors include 
three daughters-in-law, Mrs. Verta Forbus and Mrs. Mae Forbus, both of 
Lineville, and Mrs. Velma Forbus Gray of Anniston; nine grandchildren, 28 great-
grandchildren and many great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Herbert 
Forbus, Albert Forbus, Calvin Harris Ernest Sims, Arnold Clark and Grady Harris. 
Mrs. Forbus, born Julie Mitchell in 1876, was a member of Mount Olive Baptist 
Church in Clay County.

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