Robert R. Forner

Robert R. Forner

• Father: Michael Forner
• Mother: Addie Easton

• Robert R. Forner was born on 25 September 1887 in Munith, Jackson County, Michigan.
• He married Lorena Mae Davis, daughter of John E. Davis and Ida Clara Otto, on 22 October 1919 in Carrollton, Saginaw County, Michigan, at St. John the Baptist Church, by license issued the 17th in Jackson County, with Rev. Fr. George LaVallee officiating.
• The following appeared on 23 October 1919 in The Saginaw News Courier: A pretty wedding was celebrated Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock in St. John the Baptist church, Carrollton, when Miss Lorena Mae, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Davis of Kochville, was united in marriae to Robert Forner of Jackson, by Rev. Fr. George LaVallee.
       The bride was gowned in white satin and shadow lace and wore a wreath of white rose buds and a beautiful veil of silk tulle. She also carried a shower bouquet of white roses. Miss Beatrice Camp of Ann Arbor attended her as maid of honor, wearing a beautiful gown of pink georgette and carried pink roses. Little Rosalind Otto, of Bay City, cousin of the bride, who acted as flower girl was pretty in white organdie and carried a bouquet of white and pink carnations. The bride was given away by her brother, Earl J. Davis. The groom was attended by his brother, Mark Forner.
       Following the ceremony, breakfast was served to guests at the home of the bride. The color scheme was carried throughout in pink and white.
       The out of town guests included Miss Hazel Easton, Mrs. Burt Coulson, Mrs. M. Forner, all of Jackson; Mrs. Edward Kissane and family of Merrill; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Otto, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Davis, all of Bay City.
       The bride is a graduate of the class of 1913 of the Saginaw high school, and of the department of music of the university of Michigan of 1916. Since then she has been teaching in the public schools and last year taught in the St. Charles high school.
       The groom is a graduate of Ferris Institute State Normal college of Ypsilanti, and has partly completed a course in the literary department of the University of Michigan.
       The young couple left for Cleveland, Buffalo and points east, and will be at home to their friends after November 15 at 378 Drexel avenue, Detroit.
• The following appeared on 2 December 1922 in The Saginaw News Courier: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Forner of Detroit, who spent Thanksgiving with the latter's mother, Mrs. John Davis, have returned home.
       [And on the following day:] Harold W. Davis, who is attending the University of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Davis of Detroit, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Forner of Detroit, spent Thanksgiving with Saginaw relatives.
• Robert R. Forner and Lorena Mae Davis appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, at 3211 Hazelwood Avenue 1930 MI Wayne Detroit
  3211 Hazelwood ave
  
  ALL MI/MI/M
  Robert R Forner 42 md at 32
  Lorena W Forner 35 Md at 25
  Betty M Forner 9
  Vincent T 8
  Marjorie M 3-2/12
  
  . Other members of the household included Vincent Thomas Forner. Also in the household was daughter Marjorie M. (age 3 years 2 months.)
• Robert R. Forner registered for the draft in 1942 in Wayne County, Michigan, while living at 17593 Pennington in Detroit, and employed by the Board of Education. Contact: Elizabeth Forner at the same address.
• Robert R. Forner became a widower at the 13 August 1942 death of his wife Lorena Mae Davis.
• The following appeared in The Saginaw News: A former teacher of music in the St. Charles and Reese schools and a member of one of Saginaw county's prominent pioneer families, Mrs. Robert R. Forner, 47, the former Lorena Mae Davis, died Wednesday at Mt. Carmel Mercy hospital, Detroit. Lorena Mae Davis was born Aug. 13, 1894 in Kochville township, a daughter of Mrs. Ida C. Davis and the late John E. Davis. She attended Saginaw High school, graduating in 1913, and then attended the University of Michigan school of music, from which she was graduated in 1916. She taught school until her marriage on Oct. 22, 1919, to Robert R. Forner, principle in one of Detroit's schools. Her father died in 1916. She leaves her husband, one son and two daughters, Vincent Thomas, Betty Maxine and Marjorie Marie Forner of Detroit; her mother, Mrs. Ida C. Davis of Kochville township; one sister and five brothers, Sister M. Grace Jean of Grand Rapids, Mark T. Davis and Weldon J. Davis of Saginaw, Arthur V. Davis of Kochville township, Roy J. Davis of Bay City and Harold W. Davis of Detroit. Another brother, Earl J. Davis, prominent attorney, died in 1936. She also leaves an uncle, Herbert A. Otto of Saginaw. The funeral will take place at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Haley funeral home, 16065 Hamilton Detroit, and at 10:30 at Gesu church their. Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre cemetery.
• Robert R. Forner died on 16 April 1943 at age 55 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, at Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital.
• The following appeared on 16 April 1943 in The Saginaw News: Robert R. Forner, 51, brother-in-law of Mark T. Davis, died Friday at Mt. Carmel Mercy hospital, Detroit. Mr. Forner was principal of Logan school, Detroit, and made his home at 17593 Pennington Drive. He married Lorena Mae Davis in Saginaw, Oct. 22, 1919. Mrs. Forner died Aug. 13, 1942. He leaves two daughters, Betty Maxine, a teacher in the Detroit schools, Marjorie Marie, and a son Vincent T., a medical student at the University of St. Louis; his mother, a sister, and three brothers, all of Jackson. He was a graduate of Ferris Institute, Michigan State Normal college and received his master's degree at the University of Detroit. He was a district governor of the Exchange club, and a member of Gesu Catholic parish at Detroit.
• He was interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan.

• Last Edited: 29 May 2015