Inglis, Forrest Irvin – 1878-1955

ANDERSON, BEALS, BOUCHER, BYERS, COATS, DUFFY, GARNDER, INGLIS, NEAL, PETERMEIER, RILEY, SCOTT, WOLFE

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:40

Mingo Blacksmith Died
Funeral services were held Thursday, February 24th, at 2 p.m. at the Methodist church in Mingo for Forrest I. Inglis who passed away Monday at the Deaconess hospital in Marshalltown. He was taken to the hospital Thursday following a stroke. Ten days earlier he suffered a heart attack.
Forrest Irvin Inglis, son of John and Mary Scott Inglis, was born on March 25, 1878 at Lafayette, Ill., and passed away at the Deaconess hospital in Marshalltown, Iowa, on February 21, 1955, at the age of 76 years, 10 months, and 27 days.
At the age of six he moved with his parents to a farm in Holt County, Nebraska.
When eighteen years of age he moved to Ira, Iowa, where he assisted his father in the blacksmith shop. Forrest operated the blacksmith shop in Ira for thirty-one years before moving to Mingo where he has been in the business for the past twenty-eight years.
He was united in marriage to Maye Beals of Ira, Iowa, on April 19, 1903. To this union ten children were born, three sons and seven daughters.
Left to mourn his passing are his wife and ten children: Mrs. Guy (Opal) Gardner of Mingo; Mrs. Ronald (Leola) Duffy of State Center, Mrs. Chester (Loarine) Petermeier of Baxter; Mrs. Jack (Gladyce) Byers of Bondurant; Howard of Mingo; Mrs. Lou (Alta) Neal of Mingo; Mrs. Mike (NaOmi) Boucher of Mingo; Clarence of Mingo, Forest Jr. of Mingo; and Mrs. Frank (Audra) Wolfe of Polo, Illinois. Also two brothers, John of San Diego, Calif., Edward of Cozad, Nebr., and three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Coats of Lincoln, Nebraska, Mrs. S. . (Mary) Anderson of Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Beryl (Lura) Riley of West Des Moines. Twenty-four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and a host of relatives and friends also survive.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, five sisters, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
The Rev. Ralph Erts officiated at the service assisted by the Rev. Arthur Calkins. Mrs. Dale Harter was organist and a mixed quartet, Mr. and Mrs. Otho Hulse, Mrs. Howard Southern and Eldon Geisler sang. Mrs. Dennis Cummings, Mrs. Jack Womeldorff, Mrs. E. E. Spensley and Mrs. Hale Nickell were in charge of the floral offerings.
Burial was in the Union Chapel cemetery west of Ira.
Pallbearers were the sons-in-law, Guy Gardner, Chester Petermeier, Louis Neal, Ronald Duffy, Jack Byers, Mike Boucher and Frank Wolfe. The Boyd-Nickell funeral directors of Baxter were in charge of arrangements.
Source: The Colfax (IA) Tribune; Thursday, March 3, 1955, page 7
Not transcribed were poems, one written by a daughter.