Many of our people of the two Wilkesboros and county were saddened last Thursday morning when it became known that Mr. F.D. Forester had died the night before. Perhaps few had thought of his dying, believing that he was getting along well as to be expected from the operation Sunday. The end of his life came after midnight of Wednesday, about 1 o’clock at the Wilkes hospital following the appendicitis. He had gotten along apparently as others who recover from appendicitis until toward Wednesday when extensive swelling appeared. Dr. Long of Statesville returned to see him again that day. Peritonitis had set in and there seemed to be no chance for his recovery.
Perhaps no one in the county was better known by the citizens than F.D. Forester or Fidel Forester, by which name he was so well known. He was one of the first men to begin merchandising here when North Wilkesboro was chartered as a town. For about 10 years he was a member of the town board, was president and manager of the F.D. Forester & Company, director of the Deposit & Savings Bank, director in the new North Wilkesboro hotel company.
Surviving him are his wife and the following children—Mrs. John Davis of Statesville, Mrs. Malcomb A. Rousseau, Mr. Geo. Forester, Mrs. James Anderson, F.D. Forester Jr., Rachael, Louise, Billy, Peggie and Herbert. His brother, Mr. F.C. Forester, and sister, Mrs. W.B. Raymer, and his mother, Mrs. Albert Forester, who resides with her daughter and Mr. Raymer.
One grown brother and two sisters preceded him into the Great Beyond. He was in his 55th year.
The funeral was held Friday afternoon at the Methodist church after which the burial was in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery, attended by the largest crowd that ever attended a funeral in North Wilkesboro.
He was as good a man as has ever lived in Wilkes county. He made money for himself and for others and helped many whom people generally knew nothing of. He had been a member of the Methodist church for years and was liberal in his support to it.
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At a meeting of the board and employes of the Deposit & Savings Bank held April 4, 1925, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved:
First, that we have heard with deep and profound sorrow of the death of our friend and co-laborer F.D. Forester.
From the organization of this Bank until the time of his death, he was a stockholder and an officer of the Bank and was Vice President for many years. Much of the usefulness and growth of this institution were due to his assiduous labors and wise devotion to its interests and activities.
His time and splendid business talents were freely given and his strong directing mind materially sided at all times in managing and strengthening the institutions, and we hereby give expression of our appreciation of his splendid and most agreeable labors with us.
That he should have been taken away in the midst of his apparent usefulness is a myatery known only to Divine Providence.
That each of us feels a deep loss in his death, a loss to deep to find appropriate expression on words.
Second. That we extend to the widow, children and immediate relatives our deepest sympathy, and trust that a kind and compassionate Heavenly Father will give them grace and strength to bear this great bereavement.
Third. That a copy of these two resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, also to the Wilkes Journal, North Wilkesboro Hustler and Wilkes Patriot for publication, also that the same be made a part of the permanent records of this bank.
R.I. Doughton, Pres.
W.E. Colvard, Cashier
From the front page of The North Wilkesboro Hustler, Wednesday, April 8, 1925 newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92072938/1925-04-08/ed-1/seq-1/#words=April+8%2C+1925
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