Forinash, Leo Villa 1914-2005

FORINASH, TAFT, NICKERSON, YOUNG, DOWNEY, OWEN

Posted By: Debbie Nash - Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/1/2005 at 21:39:33

Leo Villa Forinash
11/28/2005

Leo Villa Forinash, 91, of Richland died at 1:15 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005, at the Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Richland United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Kim Gates and the Rev. Dean Elmore officiating. Burial will be at Richland Friends Cemetery.

Open visitation will begin at 3 p.m. today, with family present from 6-7:30 p.m. this evening at the Gould Funeral Home in Richland. Memorials have been established for the Richland Volunteer First Responders or the Richland Volunteer Fire Department.

Mr. Forinash was born May 26, 1914, in Raymondville, Mo., to John Clell and Mary M. Taft Forinash. He married Sara Nickerson Sept. 22, 1934 in Washington, Iowa.

Mr. Forinash grew up in the West Chester area, worked in the family restaurant, Butch's Café, local farms and the Porter Elevator and graduated from West Chester High School in 1933. After his marriage he and his wife moved to Conesville and he worked for International Harvester in East Moline, Ill., for approximately 10 years. Mr. Forinash also operated a truck farm in the Conesville area before he and his wife moved to Richland where they owned and operated the Home Oil Station in Richland for five years then Leo's Standard Station from 1960 to 1980 when he retired. He lived in Parkview Care Center in Fairfield for about the past two years.

Mr. Forinash had been a member of the West Chester Presbyterian Church, a Boy Scout leader and school board member in Conesville.

Survivors include his wife Sara of Fairfield; two daughters, Delores Young of Knoxville and Charlotte Downey and her husband Dick of Richland; one son, Dick Forinash and his wife Bernadine of Liberty Center; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; one sister, Ruth Owen of Keota; and one brother, Cecil L. Forinash of Knoxville, Tenn.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one grandson; and one brother, D. C. Forinash.

Courtesy of Golden Triangle Media.com 2005