Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Forist, Mike January 1, 2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net May 7, 2010, 3:07 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, January 1, 2000 Michael “Mike” Forist, 51, of Orleans, passed away Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000, at home. He was born Sept. 23, 1948, in Ionia to George and Anna Houseman Forist. Mike was a corrections officer with the Michigan Department of Corrections and was a member of the Belding Bible Church. On May 17, 1972, in Las Vegas, he married Laura Jones and she survives, along with their children, Michelle and Duane Spicer, Michalean and Michael McGraw, all of Ionia, Michael B. Forist II, Machel Jones, both of Orleans, Donna Jo Forist, Bridget Forist and Bradley Michael Forist, all of Ionia, Matthew Brandon Forist of Orleans, and one step-daughter, Lois Jones of Belding. Mike is also survived by four grandchildren, six brothers and one sister, Bud, Jerry, George, Jim, Don, Joe and Edith. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Howard Forist. Funeral and committal services will be at 11 a.m. today at the Johnson- Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding, with Pastor Kenneth Martin officiating. Burial will be in Rest Haven Memory Gardens. Visitation was on Monday from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/f/forist3756nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb