Irvine R. Forsberg, age 82, died Thursday, April 30, 1992.
He was born May 30, 1909, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of John William and Bernadina Christina Krantz Forsberg. He married Ardelle Moyes Leavitt, July 18, 1937, in Salt Lake City; marriage was solemnized in the Ogden LDS Temple, May 16, 1990. He lived in Salt Lake and Bountiful throughout his life, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II for four years, including time in the South Pacific.Irvine and Ardelle didn't have children of their own, but spent years helping to rear the sons and daughter of Ardell's sister, Helen, namely, Julie Ostler McFadden, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; Richard Ostler, Dallas, Texas; and Woodrow Trathen, Salt Lake City.
Coming from an athletic family he was closely associated with University of Utah Athletics and was a first class softball pitcher in the thirties and forties. He graduated from LDS High School in Salt Lake and was employed by Universal Carloading, Orange Freightlines, PIE Trucking and Crus Distributing where he worked for years as a salesman, retiring in 1985. He loved the outdoors and gardening. He was a charter member and president of the Bountiful Bonneview Garden Club, also a member of the Rose Society, Utah Association Garden Club, and the Men's Garden Club.
He is survived by his wife, Ardelle, and three brothers, Ernest and Harold of Salt Lake City; Carl of Seaview, Washington...and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by three brothers and a sister, Ray, Roland, William, and Helen Forsberg Mathews.
Funeral Services, Monday, April 4, 1992, 2 p.m., at the Bountiful 37th Ward Chapel, 1500 North 400 East. Friends may call Sunday evening, May 3, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. at Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 North Main, and Monday from 12:45-1:45 p.m. at the church prior to the services. Interment Lakeview Cemetery, Bountiful.
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