Submitted by: Dan Rich

Beatrice Marie Forbush

Feb. 25, 1904 - July 18, 1998

South Bend Tribune 7/20/1998

Beatrice Marie "Bea" Forbush, 94, of the Holy Cross Care and Rehabilitation Center, South Bend, Ind., died at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 18th. She was born on Feb. 25, 1904, in Benton Harbor, Mich., having lived here since September 1964, coming from Washington, D.C. On April 30, 1922, in Benton Harbor, as Beatrice M. Buckley, she married Frank T. Johnston, who died on June 13, 1962.

On June 24, 1965, in South Bend, she married Belden C. Forbush, who died on Jan. 13, 1976. She was also preceded in death by a son, Donald R. Johnston, who died on April 30, 1972. She is survived by a son, Orlow R. Johnston of Weston, Fla.; and by six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Forbush was a past member of the Benton Harbor Moose Lodge and of the Bethany Chapter 24, Order of the Eastern Star of Washington, D.C. She was a linotype operator for the News Palladium newspaper in Benton Harbor from 1920 to 1947, and then was a patents proofreader for the U.S. Government Printing Office, Patents Department, Washington, D.C., from Aug. 28, 1948, until her retirement on Oct. 18, 1963.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, in the Forest G. Hay Funeral Home, 435 S. Ironwood, with Rev. Don Neely officiating. Cremation will take place and the cremains will be interred in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger, Ind.