Wilford M. "Bill" Forker 1925-1999

FORKER, MCNAMARA, SHAIN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/8/2013 at 23:57:15

Wilford M. "Bill" Forker, 74, of Sioux City died Sunday, Sept. 19, 1999, at a Sioux City hospital following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at St. John Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Terry Hudson officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 9 p.m. today,
with the family present 7 to 9 p.m. and a Masonic service at 7 p.m. at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mr. Forker was born March 4, 1925, in Castana, Iowa, the son of Wyman P. and Esther K. (McNamara) Forker. He moved to Sioux City in 1928 and attended Sioux City schools. He graduated from Central High School in 1943, and from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1950.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, in the South Pacific.

He had practiced law in Sioux City since 1950.

He married Virginia "Ginny" (Shain) Darwich on Aug. 14, 1971, in Minneapolis, Minn.

He was a member of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota Bar Association, He served as past president of the Woodbury County Bar Association and on the board of directors of the Sioux City Museum. He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church, Sioux City Consistory, Abu Bekr Shrine Temple, Triangle Masonic Lodge 643 A.F. & A.M., American Legion Post 502 of Castana and Veterans of Foreign War Post 1973 in Sioux City.

Surivors include his wife; two daughters and their husbands, Darby and Chris Towne of Muncie, Ind., and Stephanie and Patrick Parry of Dakota Dunes, S.D.; two sons and their wives, Will L. and Jeannie Forker of Sioux City and John and Cathi Forker of Brunswick, Maine; his mother of Sioux City; and 13 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his father.

Pallbearers will be Michael Koenig, Larry Noll, Mayer Kanter, Jim Oien, Bruce Hansen and Patrick McCormick.