Obit: Forrest, Esther Doris (1906 - 1946)

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Surnames: FORREST EWERT OLSON LOOS COATY LIEPERT FIRNSTAHL PETERSON FLINK KEITH SCHREIBER MEISNER STOWE

----Sources: Marathon County Register (Unity, Clark Co. Wis.) 12/27/1946

Forrest, Esther Doris (6 May 1906 - 21 Dec. 1946)

Mrs. Eric Forrest Passes Away

Funeral rites were conducted this week at Colby and Unity for Mrs. Eric Forrest, 40, formerly of Marshfield, who died at 12:10 a.m. Dec. 21 at a Milwaukee hospital.

The Rev. J. A. Olson conducted the 12:30 o’clock service at the Lulloff Funeral Home and the 1 o’clock service at the Unity Lutheran Church. Burial was made in the Colby cemetery.

Mrs. Forrest, the former Esther Doris Ewert, was born at Unity May 6, 1906, and was married to the late G. Milford Loos in November 1923. On August 14, 1937 she married Eric Forrest, an employee of the Soo Line in Milwaukee. She was a graduate of Unity, Wis. High School with the class of 1923.

Mrs. Forrest, who lived in Milwaukee the past four months, is survived by her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Gene (Marjean) Coaty, Marshfield; and Audrey at home; a granddaughter, Barbara Jean; and 11 brothers and sisters; Mrs. Anna Ewert, Decatur, Mich.; Miss Minna Liepert, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Clara Firnstahl, Niles, Mich.; Mrs. Harriet Peterson, Neillsville; Mrs. Alma Flink, Unity; Mrs. Hulda Keith and Mrs. Anna Schreiber, Dayton, Oh.; Herb Liepert, Pleasant Valley, Canada; Oscar Ewert, Marshfield, Charles Ewert, Unity; and Herman Ewert, Tripoli.

Two sisters, Mrs. Ida Meisner and Mrs. Hannah Stowe, and two brothers, William Liepert and Gustave Ewert, preceded her in death.