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January 26, 1909 –  May 11, 2010  WHITESBORO – Graveside services for William Forrest Wells, 101, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa. Services are being directed by the Meador Funeral Home in Whitesboro.
Forrest died on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at Texoma Healthcare Center in Sherman after a short illness. He had celebrated his 101st birthday in January of this year.

He was born on Jan. 26, 1909 in Stillwater, Oklahoma to William Allen and Bertha Almyra Smith Wells. He married Ruth Horn Moore on Feb. 9, 1932, with whom he had a son, Don Forrest Wells. After the death of his wife, Forrest married Verna Bell Dickerson. He was a master machinist, owning and operating Wells Machine Shop in Odessa for many years prior to retiring and moving to Whitesboro.

Survivors include his sister, Ruth Maxine Slape, of Azle, TX, two granddaughters, Sharon Wells of Philadelphia, and Mary Ruth Latimer of Houston, many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, son and two wives.