Anchorage Daily News January 27, 1996
Edmund Beall ''Tiny'' Forester, 75, died Jan. 24, 1996, at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A funeral was at Tondre-Guinn Funeral Home in Castroville, Texas. Interment with full military honors provided by the U.S. Air Force followed at Moore Cemetery in Moore, Texas.
Mr. Forester was born Sept. 30, 1920, in Moore. Known as ''Tor'' during his school days, he graduated from Pearsall High School and attended TMI and Texas A&M before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, Mr. Forester enlisted in the new U.S. Air Force before the Korean War and flew as a flight engineer in C-97s out of Kelly Field. From 1954 to 1962, he was assigned to the Alaskan Air Command. In 1956, he was awarded the Soldiers Medal for Heroism, the military's highest peacetime award, for the rescue of both crew members of an F-89 fighter that crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Master Sgt. Forester retired from active duty in 1967. He and his wife made Castroville their home for the past 20 years.
Besides his wife, Norma of Castroville, he is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Edmund and Karen Marie Forester of Katy, Texas, and Charles James II and Karen Denise Forester of Converse, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Janice Louise and John Balson of Castroville; brother and sister-in-law, Elvin and Fannie Mae Forester of Marble Falls, Texas; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Edmund Beall ''Tiny'' Forester, 75, died Jan. 24, 1996, at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A funeral was at Tondre-Guinn Funeral Home in Castroville, Texas. Interment with full military honors provided by the U.S. Air Force followed at Moore Cemetery in Moore, Texas.
Mr. Forester was born Sept. 30, 1920, in Moore. Known as ''Tor'' during his school days, he graduated from Pearsall High School and attended TMI and Texas A&M before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, Mr. Forester enlisted in the new U.S. Air Force before the Korean War and flew as a flight engineer in C-97s out of Kelly Field. From 1954 to 1962, he was assigned to the Alaskan Air Command. In 1956, he was awarded the Soldiers Medal for Heroism, the military's highest peacetime award, for the rescue of both crew members of an F-89 fighter that crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Master Sgt. Forester retired from active duty in 1967. He and his wife made Castroville their home for the past 20 years.
Besides his wife, Norma of Castroville, he is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Edmund and Karen Marie Forester of Katy, Texas, and Charles James II and Karen Denise Forester of Converse, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Janice Louise and John Balson of Castroville; brother and sister-in-law, Elvin and Fannie Mae Forester of Marble Falls, Texas; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Anchorage Daily News January 27, 1996
Edmund Beall ''Tiny'' Forester, 75, died Jan. 24, 1996, at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A funeral was at Tondre-Guinn Funeral Home in Castroville, Texas. Interment with full military honors provided by the U.S. Air Force followed at Moore Cemetery in Moore, Texas.
Mr. Forester was born Sept. 30, 1920, in Moore. Known as ''Tor'' during his school days, he graduated from Pearsall High School and attended TMI and Texas A&M before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, Mr. Forester enlisted in the new U.S. Air Force before the Korean War and flew as a flight engineer in C-97s out of Kelly Field. From 1954 to 1962, he was assigned to the Alaskan Air Command. In 1956, he was awarded the Soldiers Medal for Heroism, the military's highest peacetime award, for the rescue of both crew members of an F-89 fighter that crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Master Sgt. Forester retired from active duty in 1967. He and his wife made Castroville their home for the past 20 years.
Besides his wife, Norma of Castroville, he is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Edmund and Karen Marie Forester of Katy, Texas, and Charles James II and Karen Denise Forester of Converse, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Janice Louise and John Balson of Castroville; brother and sister-in-law, Elvin and Fannie Mae Forester of Marble Falls, Texas; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Edmund Beall ''Tiny'' Forester, 75, died Jan. 24, 1996, at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. A funeral was at Tondre-Guinn Funeral Home in Castroville, Texas. Interment with full military honors provided by the U.S. Air Force followed at Moore Cemetery in Moore, Texas.
Mr. Forester was born Sept. 30, 1920, in Moore. Known as ''Tor'' during his school days, he graduated from Pearsall High School and attended TMI and Texas A&M before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, Mr. Forester enlisted in the new U.S. Air Force before the Korean War and flew as a flight engineer in C-97s out of Kelly Field. From 1954 to 1962, he was assigned to the Alaskan Air Command. In 1956, he was awarded the Soldiers Medal for Heroism, the military's highest peacetime award, for the rescue of both crew members of an F-89 fighter that crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Master Sgt. Forester retired from active duty in 1967. He and his wife made Castroville their home for the past 20 years.
Besides his wife, Norma of Castroville, he is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Edmund and Karen Marie Forester of Katy, Texas, and Charles James II and Karen Denise Forester of Converse, Texas; daughter and son-in-law, Janice Louise and John Balson of Castroville; brother and sister-in-law, Elvin and Fannie Mae Forester of Marble Falls, Texas; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
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