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Show Last Rites For Paul W. Forbes Held In Alpine Friends of Paul Wendell Forbes paid last respects to him at funeral services Sunday afternoon in the Alpine ward chapel. Mr. Forbes died Friday at the Lehi hospital of typhoid fever, following an illness of five weeks. He was thirty years of age. He was born at Alpine on May 13, 1909, a son of Joseph A. and Esther Hamnett Forbes. He received his education at the Alpine school and American Fork high school. He married Vera Street of Heber, on October 10, 1930. Surviving are his widow and parents, par-ents, two daughters, Colleen and LaFave Forbes of Alpine: and eight brothers and sisters, Joseph D. Forbes of Las Vegas, Nevada; Roby Forbes of Monticello; Fred, Bill, and Doris Forbes and Mrs. Alice Vance of Alpine; Mrs. Ray Carter of Lehi, and Mrs .Arthur Broderick and Mrs. Ole Jensen of Emery. Interment was in the Alpine city cemetery. Biographical Sketch By Mrs. Mae Marsh The weeks of anxious waiting to see if life or death should be triumphant trium-phant came to a close when the spirit of Paul Wendell Forbes was called home Friday morning, October Oc-tober 27. Stricken in the prime of his young manhood, with a disease that human skill was unable to overcome, he had left all that was dear to him in this life and his place will be empty to his little family and his friends. Born in Alpine on May 13, 1909, where his 30 years were spent, his life has been open to us all and we knew him as a boy of a jovial nature na-ture and congenial disposition. He was the seventh child of Joseph! Arthur and Esther Hamnett Forbes and came through a line of ancestry ances-try who helped pioneer the west. His paternal grandfather, Joseph B. Forbes, was one of the foremost educators of the state. He was one of the instigators of the free school system in Utah and was its first teacher and principal. His own love and talent for music was transmitted trans-mitted to his children and grandchildren, grand-children, and the Arthur Forbes home in Alpine has always been known for its atmosphere of mirth and music. Paul possessed talent, vocal and instrumental, and was known by a wide circle of friends. After completing the eight grades of the public school here and two years in the American Fork high school, he worked with his father and brothers on the farm and in the canyon. In the church he held the office of priest. On October 10, 1930, he was married to DeVera Street of Heber City, and in the nine years of their married life they were a happy and congenial couple. Paul never sought trouble and when it came he chose the brighter side. They were the parents of three children, a boy who died in infancy and the two girls, Colleen and La-Fay, La-Fay, who survive. Paul's serious illness began about two months ago, and since then everything had been done for the return of his normal health. Besides his wife and two daughters daught-ers he is survived by his parents and nine brothers and sisters. n |