Forker, Risdon – 1848-1932

CHESHIRE, FORKER, OGAN, SINGLETON, STOCK

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:32

Risdon Forker of Colfax Dies
News Club Member, 84, Succumbs Following Short Illness
Colfax, Aug. 22 – Special to The Daily News – Risdon Forker, member of the Newton Daily News Three Quarter Century club, died Sunday night at 12:30 o’clock at his home in Colfax, following a short illness of bronchial pneumonia. His death occurred just five days after his eighty-fourth birthday anniversary.
Mr. Forker, veteran salesman and grocer, was born Aug. 16, 1848, in Ohio, one of a family of nine children. He was united in marriage to Fannie Singleton and to this union one son, Frank, was born. Later he married Ora A. Ogan at Colfax on Oct. 31, 1897, and six children were born to this union.
Mr. Forker had been a resident of the county since May 1, 1900, when he came to Colfax from Des Moines. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Yeoman lodges and the Methodist Episcopal church.
Surviving relatives include his widow, Mrs. Ora Forker and seven children, Frank of Waterloo; Mrs. Frank Stock, Dorothy and Wilson Forker of Colfax; and Hubert, Blanche F. and Harry, all of Des Moines. Four grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Blanch Cheshire of Chicago and two brothers, William Forker of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Edmond C. Forker of Denver, Colo., also survive.
Funeral services are to be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from the Methodist church, with interment to be in the cemetery at Mitchellville.
Source: Newton Daily News; August 22, 1932, page 1