Jessie
Forastiere
Jessie
Lynch Forastiere, 92, of Pekin died at 1:52 a.m. Friday, July 20,
2001, at her residence.
Her
funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Monday, July 23, at Hurley Funeral
Home in Mason City, with the Rev. Robert Paddack officiating.
Burial
will be in Mason City Cemetery.
Visitation
will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.
Mrs.
Forastiere was a housewife.
She
was a veteran of the Army Nurse Corps, in which she was a second
lieutenant.
She
was born March 5, 1909, in Oakford to Samuel C. and Margaret E.
Cohee Lynch. She married Dr. Roger J. Forastiere on May 15, 1944, in
Wichita Falls, Texas. He died in 1992.
She
is survived by two brothers, Donald A. Lynch of Long Prairie, Minn.,
and Russell C. Lynch of Mason City; one sister, Shirley J. Hawks of
Mason City; and several nieces and nephews.
She
also was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.
She
was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Coco Plum Womans Club
in Miami, Fla., and of the Doctors Auxiliary in Coral Gables, Fla.
Memorial
contributions may be made to American Legion Jackson Keen Post 496,
Mason City.
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