Dallas Co., TX - Obituaries - Permelia Caroline Watkins-FORSTON
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Obituary: Permelia Caroline Watkins-Forston 1946, The Dallas Morning News

Mrs. J. S. Forston Died Friday at Dallas Home
Dec. 20, 1946

  Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Hampton
Place Church of Christ in Dallas, for Mrs. J. S. Forston, who passed away at
her home, 2518 Ramsey St., Dallas, Friday.  Fred C. Boshart of Dallas and
George W. Patterson of Weatherford will officiate.

  Interment will be made in the Crisp Cemetery where a short service will be
held at 4:15 p.m.

  Active pallbearers will be Walter Ramsey, Tom Ramsey, Ira Winterrowd, O.V.
Campbell, J.E. Minter and J.H. Goodwin.

   Honorary pallbearers are O.H. Williams, E.M. Reed, B.L. Johnson, Samuel
Forston, Gerald Forston, George Forston, Walter Williams and Adolphus 
Goodwin.

   Surviving are her husband, five sons, Alvie Forston of San Diego, Calif.,
Willie M. Forston of Bardwell, Ira Lee Forston of Dallas, Athol Forston of
Tyler and Ernie S. Forston of Dallas; four daughters, Mrs. Ruby Watkins of
Dallas, Mrs. O.H. Williams of Ennis, Mrs. Nancy Reed of Dallas, Mrs. Ella Ree
Johnson of Dallas; one brother, Tom Watkins of Dyke, Tex.; one sister, Mrs.
Will Ramsey of Mart; thirty-two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

  Mrs. Forston was born in Winterrowd, Ill., March 12, 1879, and came to
Texas at the age of ten.  Her father passed away while she was an infant and
she was brought to Texas by her stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk
Winterrowd.  The family settled in the Garrett community, later moving to
Crisp.  In 1926 the family moved to Dallas.

  Mrs. Forston was married to James Samuel Forston on Jan. 25, 1893 at
Corsicana.  They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in Dallas in 
1943.

  Among those attending funeral services for Mrs. J. S. Forston at 2 o'clock
Sunday at the Hampton Place Church of Christ in Dallas were Rev. and Mrs.
J.J.S. Sheppard; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jones, Mr. and Mrs. B.C. Pool, Mr. and
Mrs. W.D. Bozek.  Others attending the service at the Crisp Cemetery where
interment was made, included Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. N.
Stacke, Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt, Mrs. Dareen Ramsey, Mrs. W.H. Baker, Mrs. J.W.
Minor, Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Minor, Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Minor, Mr. and Mrs. P.C.
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Kitchens, Mrs. J.W.
Gailey, Bob Gailey, Misses Fontaine Jones, Melba Johnson, Joyce Sheppard and
Joan Cummings.

  J.S. Forston of Dallas spent Sunday night with his son, W. M. Forston and
family and they visited in Kaufman, Monday.
   

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