2015
Doris
2015
Doris A. Forbes
May 20, 2015 — May 21, 2015
Doris A. Forbes, 97, of St. Paul died Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at her home in St. Paul.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in St. Paul. Dave Hellerich and Pastor John Njau will officiate. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery in St. Paul.
Visitation will be on Friday, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at the church.
Memorials are suggested to St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
Doris Arlene (Jepson) Forbes was born November 9 in the year of our Lord 1917 in South Logan, Howard County, NE to Andrew Hans and O. Minnie (Petersen) Jepson. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Cushing.
She graduated from District 42 grade school and attended two years of high school in Cushing and two years in St. Paul, graduating in 1936. She graduated from the Zocholl Business College attaining state honors in shorthand and typing. She was offered a job in Washington, D.C. working for the government. She chose to stay near family and worked at the Agriculture and Stabilization Conservation Service.
She and her sister Margie Ann were known as the pretty redheads who sang at many social functions. She met the love of her life in the handsome Raymond A. (Bill) Forbes from Palmer. They were married August 10, 1940 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Cushing. To this union two children were born, Minnie Gail and William J.
Doris and her sister Elfie Johnson opened the Forbes and Johnson Nursing Home in St. Paul in 1952. They built Blue Gables Nursing Home, a 20 bed facility in 1956. Due to Bill's poor health, they sold Blue Gables in 1963. Bill passed away June 1, 1964. Doris and the children were his main caregivers. After Bill's passing Doris and Elfie ran two nursing homes in Grand Island.
Doris was a helpmate to Bill in his political career. She sang at all Democratic Rallies in Howard County and went door to door campaigning with Bill. Doris and Bill were part of the group who collected donations for St. Mark's Lutheran Church to begin it's ministry in St. Paul. Doris was choir director and President of the Women of the Church. She and the ladies of the church provided many funeral lunches. She also sang at most weddings and funerals.
Doris was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in St. Paul and Esther Circle. She was a Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star and Past Noble Grand in the Rebekah Lodge. Doris loved to play cards especially bridge and 10 point pitch. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She attended most of her grandchildren's events and was so very proud of each one of them.
A celebration of life ceremony was held around her bed Sunday, May 17 with her children, all of her grandchildren and loving family around her.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Minnie Gail and Dave Sprague of St. Paul; a son, William J. Forbes of LeMoyne, NE; grandchildren, Caleb Forbes, Judah Forbes, Talia Forbes-Pavlides and Stavros Pavlides, Dakota and Danielle Forbes, Tobias Forbes, and Jennifer Carlson, Alisha Forbes and Nathan Forbes; great-grandchildren, Tristen and Arabella Forbes, Haily and Lily Ashe and Areyta and Dakson Forbes; nieces and nephews; step children, Jeanne and Greg Gewecke, Terry and Linda Rickert and Rhonda and Jon Farabee.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Raymond; grandson, Gabrial Forbes; siblings, Elfie and Alfred Johnson, Malven and Marie Jepson, Orval and Mae Jepson, Margie Ann and Bill Bartlett; nieces, Beverly Pedersen and Shirley Wohlers and nephews, Richard Jepson and Frank Andrew Bartlett.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in St. Paul. Dave Hellerich and Pastor John Njau will officiate. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery in St. Paul.
Visitation will be on Friday, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at the church.
Memorials are suggested to St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
Jacobsen-Greenway Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements.
Doris Arlene (Jepson) Forbes was born November 9 in the year of our Lord 1917 in South Logan, Howard County, NE to Andrew Hans and O. Minnie (Petersen) Jepson. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Cushing.
She graduated from District 42 grade school and attended two years of high school in Cushing and two years in St. Paul, graduating in 1936. She graduated from the Zocholl Business College attaining state honors in shorthand and typing. She was offered a job in Washington, D.C. working for the government. She chose to stay near family and worked at the Agriculture and Stabilization Conservation Service.
She and her sister Margie Ann were known as the pretty redheads who sang at many social functions. She met the love of her life in the handsome Raymond A. (Bill) Forbes from Palmer. They were married August 10, 1940 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Cushing. To this union two children were born, Minnie Gail and William J.
Doris and her sister Elfie Johnson opened the Forbes and Johnson Nursing Home in St. Paul in 1952. They built Blue Gables Nursing Home, a 20 bed facility in 1956. Due to Bill's poor health, they sold Blue Gables in 1963. Bill passed away June 1, 1964. Doris and the children were his main caregivers. After Bill's passing Doris and Elfie ran two nursing homes in Grand Island.
Doris was a helpmate to Bill in his political career. She sang at all Democratic Rallies in Howard County and went door to door campaigning with Bill. Doris and Bill were part of the group who collected donations for St. Mark's Lutheran Church to begin it's ministry in St. Paul. Doris was choir director and President of the Women of the Church. She and the ladies of the church provided many funeral lunches. She also sang at most weddings and funerals.
Doris was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in St. Paul and Esther Circle. She was a Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star and Past Noble Grand in the Rebekah Lodge. Doris loved to play cards especially bridge and 10 point pitch. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She attended most of her grandchildren's events and was so very proud of each one of them.
A celebration of life ceremony was held around her bed Sunday, May 17 with her children, all of her grandchildren and loving family around her.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Minnie Gail and Dave Sprague of St. Paul; a son, William J. Forbes of LeMoyne, NE; grandchildren, Caleb Forbes, Judah Forbes, Talia Forbes-Pavlides and Stavros Pavlides, Dakota and Danielle Forbes, Tobias Forbes, and Jennifer Carlson, Alisha Forbes and Nathan Forbes; great-grandchildren, Tristen and Arabella Forbes, Haily and Lily Ashe and Areyta and Dakson Forbes; nieces and nephews; step children, Jeanne and Greg Gewecke, Terry and Linda Rickert and Rhonda and Jon Farabee.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Raymond; grandson, Gabrial Forbes; siblings, Elfie and Alfred Johnson, Malven and Marie Jepson, Orval and Mae Jepson, Margie Ann and Bill Bartlett; nieces, Beverly Pedersen and Shirley Wohlers and nephews, Richard Jepson and Frank Andrew Bartlett.
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