GLEN DAVID FORINASH OF BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI FORMERLY OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI WAS BORN TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1912 IN RAYMONDVILLE, MISSOURI A SON OF THE LATE DOROTHY (RICHARDSON) AND JACOB RAY FORINASH. GLEN DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE ST. JOE MANOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2001 AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-NINE YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND NINE DAYS.
GLEN WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ANN ADAMS OSBORNE ON OCTOBER 12, 1963, ANN PRECEDED GLEN IN DEATH JUNE 30, 1991. ON APRIL 13, 1994 GLEN MARRIED VIRGELENE RAGSDALE.
GLEN IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, VIRGELENE FORINASH OF BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI; TWO SONS, BILL FORINASH AND WIFE JOAN OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, DONALD FORINASH AND WIFE SANDRA OF BRIGHTON, TENNESSEE; ONE DAUGHTER, DELAINE SCHLEMEIER AND HUSBAND KEN OF FARMINGTON, MISSOURI; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; TWO BROTHERS, J.K. FORINASH AND WIFE JESSIE OF SPANISH LAKE, MISSOURI, JAMES FORINASH AND WIFE WANEDA OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI; ONE SISTER DOROTHY R.. RIDDICK OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA; STEP CHILDREN, STEP GRAND CHILDREN, STEP GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, HIS FIRST WIFE , LOYSE "CARTY" REUTER OF FARMINGTON, MISSOURI AND MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
GLEN WAS A LONG TIME AND DEDICATED MEMBER OF THE IRONDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, IRONDALE, MISSOURI. GLEN WAS A LONG TIME MEMBER OF THE IRONDALE MASONIC LODGE AND THE IRONDALE ORDER OF EASTERN STAR. HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE LODGE SINCE 1943 AND THE EASTERN STAR SINCE 1944. GLEN WAS A PAST PATRON OF THE EASTERN STAR.
GLEN CO-OWNED THE DEFOREST MILLING CO, OWNED AND OPERATED FORINASH FEED AND SUPPLY BOTH IN IRONDALE. HE RETIRED FROM UNITED VAN LINES, WHERE HE RECEIVED MANY HONORS FOR HIS LONG TIME SAFETY DRIVING RECORD.
VISITATION WAS HELD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2001 FROM 5 TO 9 P.M., WITH MASONIC MEMORIAL SERVICE AND THE ORDER OF EASTERN STAR SERVICE BEING HELD AT 7 P.M., AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME, IRONDALE, MISSOURI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 24, 2001 AT THE IRONDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WITH REV. MICHAEL LOCKHART OFFICIATING. SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE BILL FORINASH, DON FORINASH, ERIK FORINASH, MIKE FORINASH, CLAY SCHLEMEIER AND DAN SCHLEMEIER. BURIAL WAS IN THE BIG RIVER CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOMES, IRONDALE, MISSOURI.