Eugenia "Jennie" Forsythe

Eugenia "Jennie" Forsythe
Eugenia "Jennie" Forsythe passed away on Saturday, October 29th, 2005 after a hard fought battle with cancer. She was 86 years old and had been a resident of Novato since 1958.
Born in 1919 in New Orleans, LA Jennie traveled to many states and schools due to her father's career in Vaudeville. Jennie graduated from Textile High School in New York City at the age of 16 in 1936. She married her husband Wallace in 1943 in Mississippi and was an officer's wife in the United States Air Force for twenty years. In addition to raising her family of four children she was a professional secretary working the last twenty years before her retirement in 1984 as a civil servant at Hamilton Air Force Base and Mare Island. She was the charter student at Indian Valley College being the first student to enroll in 1971. She pursued an education in the Humanities. She loved her family, friends and her crossword puzzles.
Jennie was preceded in death by her husband, Wallace C. Forsythe, a World War II B-17 bomber pilot and a retired Lt. Colonel in the USAF as well as her parents, Fred of Naples, Italy and Helen Pisano of New Orleans, LA. She is survived by her four children: John Henry and his wife Rebecca of Long Island, NY, Roberta Louise of Novato, Scott Leonard of Terra Linda and Irene Tait of Novato. She is also survived by five grandchildren: Emily Forsythe Mooney and her husband Jim of Massachusetts, Amanda Forsythe and her husband Ed Jones of Massachusetts, Nolan Hotchkiss and his wife Jessica of Petaluma, Katie Forsythe of Santa Barbara and Michael Tait of San Diego as well as two great-grandchildren, Eric and Katherine Mooney of Massachusetts.
Jennie lived her life exactly as she wanted for the last thirty years of her life and she and her very unique personality will be sorely missed by many.
The services will be private and her remains will be interred at Valley Memorial Cemetery in Novato. Donations may be made in her honor to Hospice of Marin or the Marin Humane Society.