Jodie J. Forbes Obituary ~ Dec 29, 1961

Contributed by Joan S Dunn





Rites for Mrs. Jodie J. Forbes

Daily Reflector, Fri., Dec 29, 1961

Mrs. Lucy DICKERSON FORBES, 57, wife of Jodie J. FORBES of near Grimesland, died 
Thursday in a Newport News, Va. hospital after two months of illness. Funeral 
services will be conducted at the Wilkerson Chapel Saturday afternoon at two o’clock 
and burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. The Rev. J. L. RUSSELL, Jr., pastor of St. 
Paul’s Pentecostal Holiness Church near Greenville will conduct the services. Mrs. 
FORBES spent all her life in Pitt County. She was married to Horton DICKERSON, who 
died in 1951. She was later married to Mr. FORBES who survives. Also surviving are a 
son and two daughter by her first marriage; Louis DICKERSON, Mrs. Woodrow ANGEL and 
Mrs. C. E. MESIC, all of Newport News, Va.; eight grand-children; five step-children;
Mrs. Margaret SMALLEY of Toledo, Ohio, Joe Buck FORBES of Grimesland, Mr. J. B. 
OAKLEY of Greenville, Lennie FORBES and Mrs. James TYSON of Greenville; seven 
step-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Joe PARKS of Washington and Mrs. Pearl GASKINS 
of Portsmouth, Va.; and three brothers, Paul MOORE of Newport News, Va., Broadus 
MOORE of Grifton, and Huey MOORE of Denver, Colo.



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