Stanley Owen Forker

Services for Stanley Owen Forker, 56, of Logansport, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Marocco Funeral Chapel.

He died at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, 2007 in Logansport Memorial Hospital.

Born March 29, 1951, in Logansport, he was the son of the late Clifford Owen and Stella Mae (Shaffer) Forker.  He was married December 22, 1984, in Logansport to Susan Gail Lenon, who survives.

Mr. Forker attended school at Lewis Cass and Logansport and graduated from a school in Homburg, Germany.  He was a assembler at Carlisle Industrial Brake & Friction in Logansport.

He was a veteran of the United States Army, having served as a staff sergeant  during the Vietnam War.

He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3790, Cass County React, Cass County Sheriffchr(39)s Association, and president of the U.S. Steelworkers Union Local.  He was also a member of Main Street United Methodist Church.

He enjoyed watching NASCAR and spending time with his family.

Surviving also are one daughter, Diana Braun and her husband, Brant, Winamac; three sons, Steven Forker and his wife, Shanon, Galveston, Jeffrey Forker and his wife, Brenda, Lucerne, and Brian Forker, Wabash; one brother, Neil Owen Forker and his wife, Marjorie, Carmel; three sisters, Lynn Corcoran and her husband, Randy, and Georgette Beatty and her husband, Jarel, all of Logansport, and Anna Marie Hildebrand and her husband, Ron, Tallahasee, Florida; mother-in-law, Joan Weimer, Logansport; father-in-law, Bill Lenon and his friend, Marilyn Parker, Logansport; nine grandchildren, Jason Malchow, Trinity Eckelbarger, Jacob Forker, Elijah Eckelbarger, Brittany Braun, Matthew Eckelbarger, Kamien Forker, Jael Forker and Brady Braun; and several nieces and nephews.

His father-in-law, Al Weimer, preceded in death.

Pastor Keith R. Schreffler will officiate at the services.  Burial with full military rites, will be held in Ever Rest Memorial Park, Logansport.

Friends may call from 2 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral chapel.