Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Forte, Agnes Meloni July 19, 2012
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Virginian-Pilot  July 21, 2012
Norfolk - Agnes Meloni Forte, devoted wife, loving mother and loyal friend, passed 
away quietly with her family by her side at Sentara Leigh Hospital in the evening 
of Thursday July 19th, 2012. Mrs. Forte was predeceased by her parents, Alexander 
and Agnes "Nacy" Meloni of Norfolk, Virginia. She is survived by her adoring 
husband, Dr. Theodore Forte, by her loving daughter and son-in-law, Alexandria 
Forte-Nijssen and Leendert Nijssen, and by her greatest joy, her granddaughter 
Alexandra Elizabeth Turner. She also leaves behind a multitude of Waters Edge 
neighbors, lifelong friends, and close family, to whom she was devoted.

Mrs. Forte was a 1946 graduate of Maury High School, and the Secretary of her 
class as well as a cornerstone of her Reunion Committee. Mrs. Forte attended the 
Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, and received her Bachelor's 
degree in Music with emphasis in performance and pedagogy from the Cincinnati 
Conservatory of Music. She was an accomplished concert pianist, and was a guest 
soloist twice with the Norfolk Symphony when they presented the Saint-Saens 
Carnival of the Animals and the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto. She was a faculty 
member of the Bristow Hardin School of Music in Norfolk, and subsequently taught 
piano from home for 32 years, sending many budding musicians on to professional 
music careers with her tutelage. She was proud to be a sponsor of the Keynote 
Music Club which met at the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. She was a member 
and an active volunteer at the Chrysler Museum, and a life member of both the 
Virginia Symphony and the Virginia Opera Guild. Agnes was exacting in her 
standards and lived life by the highest ethical construct, serving as a beacon of 
right and wrong to all who loved her. Special thanks must be given to the nurses 
at Sentara Leigh Hospital, who gave her exceptional and kind care over the last 
months of her illness, and to her dedicated surgeon, Randy B. Gould, who cared for 
her with the devotion of a family member.

A graveside service will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, July 23, 2012, at 
Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Norfolk, Virginia. Memorial donations may be 
made to the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, 601 Children's Lane, 
Norfolk, Virginia 23507 or to Saint Jude Children's Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas 
Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105. H. D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel, is 
handling arrangements. Online condolences may be left for the family at 
www.hdoliver.com

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