SYRACUSE - Forrest J. Mock, 91, died Aug. 26. 2010, at The Maples, Goshen.
He was born July 11, 1919, on the family farm in North Webster, to James R. and Eva Marie Koher Mock. On Sept. 28, 1947, he married Evelyn M. Rogers, who died in 2002.
After graduating from North Webster High School, where he played basketball and was team captain during his senior year, he lived in Detroit with his family friends columnist William Albert and Ruth Jacoby and worked as a foreman at Briggs Manufacturing Company in aircraft component assembly. While at Briggs, he played basketball on the 1943 league-winning Briggs Industrial Team. He proudly served in the Army of the United States during World War II, first training in anti-aircraft artillery then advancing to aircraft instrument specialist. He served as a sergeant in the Air Transport Command at air bases stateside and in Great Britain. After World War II, he worked as a meat cutter in Fort Wayne, Warsaw and his hometown where he owned and operated The Locker Plant and later worked in construction. He was a life member of the American Legion Post 253, North Webster.
Surviving are a sister-in-law, Sue (and spouse Dean) Mock, Elkhart; brothers-in-law, the Rev. Kermit Nordeen, Stillwater, Minn., and Hans Schmahl, Marshall, Minn.; cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by all his siblings, including Marcella Bockman, Bonnie Eberly, Charlotte Baugher, Dale Mock and former State Representative Dean Mock.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at North Webster Cemetery, Mock Addition, on North CR 850E, south of East CR 500N, with the Rev. Myron Drent officiating. Military honors will be by the North Webster American Legion.
No calling is planned.
Eastlund Funeral Home, Syracuse, is in charge of arrangements.
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Memorials to honor his love of God's creatures may be made to the Animal Welfare League of Kosciusko County, P.O. Box 1906, Pierceton, IN 46562.
