Obit of Forbes, Frances Burns - Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 21 Jul 1998

Frances Burns Forbes

TULSA, Okla. - Frances Burns Forbes, 89, died Sunday, July 19, 1998.

Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Thursday in St. Anthony's 
Catholic Church. Burial will be in the family plot at Okmulgee. 
Arrangements are by Moore's Funeral Home of Tulsa.

Mrs. Forbes was born and raised in Okmulgee. In her early teens, she 
auditioned for Madam Schuman-Heink. As a result, she was one of three 
singers chosen in the United States for further study in Wagnerian 
roles at Bayreuth, Germany, home of the Wagnerian Festival. She 
studied both drama and music with the Wagnerian Opera. She studied in 
St. Paul, Minn., with Lewis Shaw and Guy Durrell, both Shakespearean 
actors, prior to going to Germany.

In Germany she was coached by both Schuman-Heink and Siegfried Wagner. 
Additional preparation included study in New York with Eleanor McCllelan 
at the Dal Croize Institute.

After several years in Germany, her career in opera closed and she 
returned to Oklahoma. She became a teacher of both music and drama in 
the early 1930s at Monte Casino at Tulsa.

Her husband, John J. Forbes, died in in 1944.

During World War II, the Glennan Hospital in Okmulgee was converted 
to a German prisoner of war hospital, and she was employed as an 
interpreter for the government.

In the early 1950s, she moved to Amarillo to teach in the public 
school system, later becoming a principal until her retirement. She 
was a member of the Amarillo Little Theater, the American Association 
of University Women, Texas Retired Teachers Association and St. 
Bernard's Catholic Church at Tulsa.

She moved to Tulsa in 1994.

She also was preceded in death by a son, Joseph Burns Forbes in 1981.

Survivors include a daughter, Terri Banasik of Tulsa; six 
grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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