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- Forest Friend
Defiance, Ohio – Forest William Friend, 82, of 90 N. Michigan Ave., Coldwater, a retired carpenter, died Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Community Health Center of Branch County.
Funeral services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the mast and Mock Funeral Home in Defiance, Ohio with the Rev. Charles Shock and the Rev. Earl Cross officiating. Burial will be at North Mt. Zion Cemetery near Defiance. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today, Friday. Local arrangements were by Putnam Funeral Home where envelopes are available for memorials to the American Cancer Society.
Mr. Friend was born June 2, 1902 in Oakwood, Ohio, the son of Adam and Lillian (Hill) Friend. On April 16, 1922 he married Margaret Morris. For the past 36 years, he lived in the Hillsdale and Branch County area. He was a retired carpenter and attended the North Reading Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret Friend; five sons; Vearl Friend of Frankfort; Bernard Friend of Coldwater; Rolland Friend of Seattle, Wash.; Royce Friend of Mio, and William Friend of Reading; one daughter, Mrs. Everett (Eloise) Gorsline of Pearblossom, Calif.; 16 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, an done brother, Ceo Friend of Dayton, Ohio.
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