Jean Rosalie Forrest

She was born July 10, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois to William and Rosalie (Amirault) Forrest, one of ten children.

She served four years in the U.S. Army, stationed in India. Returning to the states, she enjoyed a career as secretary for various Chicago businesses, and was a valued employee for many years before moving to Florida in 1970.

She moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1975. Her love for her adopted state was obvious to all who knew her. She spent many years as a mentor for the local school, and was involved with the Catholic Church and various volunteer organizations. Her many friends and family knew her as a loyal, strong, and giving person. Even in her passing she is looking out for those of us left behind through this poem by Carol Mirkel:

“I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when my life is done.

I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,

of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun, of happy memories that I leave when my life is done.”

She is survived by her brother, Richard Forrest, sisters Marguerite Sugden and Ellen Boyle, and many nieces and nephews. She will be greatly missed and was dearly loved.

Funeral Mass will be held at St. John Neumann Catholic Church on Friday, June 29, 2012 at 11:30 A.M. Interment will follow at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, with military honors at 1:45 P.M.