David Allison Forson

David Allison Forson, longtime Seminole resident, died August 25, 2018. David was born October 12, 1928, in Hot Springs, Arkansas to Allison Thomas Forson and Julia (Holcombe, Forson) Matthews. Although born in Arkansas, David grew up in Seminole, Oklahoma and attended elementary, middle and high school in Seminole, graduating Seminole High School in 1946. (Some years later he graduated Regis University in Denver, Colorado with a bachelor's degree in business.)  After high school David enlisted as a Marine, in service for a four year period. David married Sylvia (Wilson) Forson on May 9, 1951 in Ada, Oklahoma.  In 1952, after the birth of their first child, he was transferred (by his oilfield services employer) from Seminole to Hobbs, New Mexico where they lived for 17 years. They subsequently moved to Casper, Wyoming for 3 years and then to Denver, Colorado for 28 years before relocating back to Seminole 19 years ago.  David enjoyed multiple career successes (and encountered some disappointments typical to most careers), but his occupational goals seem not to have hindered his focus on the missions he considered higher priorities, being his faith in and pursuit of knowing God and his love for family, friends and neighbors, and on numerous occasions even those who were simply in need of help or support that David felt led by God to assist in providing. David sought friendship and Christian fellowship at almost every stage of his adult life.  David's wife Sylvia died in 2009, almost 10 years after she and David had moved back to Seminole, the hometown they had known in their earlier years.  Her passing was mourned by many friends and family, profoundly so by David. But with the generous support of many friends and family, and his trust in God, David resumed his lifelong pursuit of learning and living the life that he believed was created in and for him by the Lord. Together with Sylvia, he went on many mission trips to foreign countries for the Lord, including five trips to Korea and trips to Norway, Japan and England.  Trips focused, it seems, on service in the mission of telling others about the Lord and helping as possible in leading them to their own trust in Him. David and Sylvia were parents to four surviving children: daughter Vicki Williams of Casper, Wyoming; daughter Karen Wilkin, and her husband, Lanny, of Richland, Washington; son David Forson, Jr., and his wife, Lisa, of Sugar Land, Texas; and daughter Julie Voorhies, and her husband, James, of Casper, Wyoming.  Those four surviving children have, in total, thirteen grandchildren and thirty great grandchilren.   David is survived by two siblings, brother Danny Forson of Greenville, Texas, and sister Margaret Wootten, of Hobbs, New Mexico and also his step-sister Jerry Sullivan of Seminole. David is also survived by two of Sylvia's sisters, many well-loved nieces, nephews and cousins, and honorary family members Yunmoon Jung and Sunyoung Kwon, formerly residents of Denver, Colorado and currently of Victoria BC. David was preceded in death by his parents. The family acknowledges its debt of gratitude owed to the membership and clergy of First Baptist Church, Seminole.  The family also expresses its thanks and admiration for David's close friend Dorothy Sharp, a friendship made stronger by their respective pain in deaths of each of their longtime spouses. For anyone wanting to make a memorial donation in lieu of flowers, the family believes that David viewed the goals and missions of Global Heart Ministries (Plano, Texas), and the Veteran's Corner (Oklahoma) as worthy of support.   Funeral Information: August 31, 2018, 3:00 PM First Baptist Church @ 420 Reid Street in Seminole, Oklahoma located at Seminole, Seminole, 74868