Forest Eugene-Douglas Worsencroft

Forest Eugene-Douglas Worsencroft took his last breath in the loving arms of his parents, Timothy Worsencroft and Jacie Murray on October 6, 2025.

Forest's presence, beautiful face, vivacious personality is a loss that words cannot describe.

We welcomed Forest into our lives on April 29, 2025 at OU Children's hospital in Oklahoma City. Although unexpected and on his time, he only weighed 2 pounds and 9.3 ounces. He defied all odds and amazed everyone as he maneuvered so many obstacles during his short life.

We were told by many doctors that Forest may not even survive birth. With him being 2 months premature and also having all of the anomalies he had and very underdeveloped lungs he did just that, survived. He was admitted immediately to the neonatal intensive care unit at OU Children's. We were made aware very early on of his anomalies, Forest was born with a condition called Gastroschisis which is when the intestines protrude outside the abdominal wall. Forest also had clubbed feet, and a midline brain deformity, when he was born his legs were hyperextended and in a "splits" position due to his hip dysplasia. His limbs were webbed from the inside, and he had a pretty bad hernia, doctors also told us that our son had an unusually small chin that they call 'strawberry chin'. Forest was never able to move his arms only really his right hand where he occasionally tried to squeeze things that were in his hand, but his legs were a different story. His legs would go absolutely wild when he was excited about something, Forest also had a slow lymphatic system that would cause him to swell pretty significantly all over his body. It took a while but the amazing staff of doctors at OU were able to get his swelling down to none, we could see his beautiful little eyes and he could finally see mommy and daddy. Shortly before he passed, we, his parents, were told that our son was suspected to have profound hearing loss in both ears. That information was very tough to handle but in the grand scheme, we knew that our beautiful boy most definitely had his vision, his eyes lit up every time we popped into his line of sight or played with his favorite toys or showed him vibrant colors, he absolutely loved looking through windows and seeing the outside world.

Forest had an amazing team of medical professionals that absolutely adored him and showed him so much love, one thing about Forest is that he absolutely loved attention. He loved being held by mommy and daddy, talked to and loved his head rubs, he did however absolutely despise being wiped down for a bath. So we ended up putting him in a little tub filled with warm water and his opinion on baths changed fairly quickly, he would often fall asleep just seconds after putting him in those tubs and would get mad at us when it was time to get out. After 5 months in the NICU it was time for Forest to undergo the biggest surgery of his life, the trach surgery. Forest did great during the surgery and it was over very fast, he was then transferred just one floor down to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, where he ultimately started to decline. We were heartbroken having to watch him struggle the way he was, and we had to make the decision no parent should have to ever make, to let our son go. We pride ourselves on making that difficult choice for the benefit of our amazing boy, he is happy he is loved, he is no longer suffering this extremely tough battle.

The point of this story about our son's life is to shed light on what our boy had to face and how strong and willing and determined he was to beat these horrible circumstances that he had. He is our warrior, he is our hero, he is our idol, and we will spend our lives hoping to one day be as strong as our little Forest, we love you more than the world baby boy and someday like we promised, we will find you and hold you once more. Rest in peace our sweet little angel.

Forest is survived by: his mother Jacie Murray, his father Timothy Worsencroft, Grandmother Tabetha Worsencroft, Grandfather Brad Worsencroft, great grandmother Jennifer Andrews, Aunt Tatum Matthews, Uncle Tristan DeVon, Grandfather Jason Murray, Grandfather Will Atchley, Great aunt Eva Bierig and many others.

Forest is preceded in death by: his great grandfather Douglas 'Mike' Andrews, great grandfather Bobby Matthews, Grandmother Maci Barnes, great grandmother Jacqueline Barnes, great grandfather Melvin Barnes and many others.

Graveside services will be held on Friday, October 10th, at 4:00 p.m. at the Canton Reinterment Cemetery in Canton, Oklahoma. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oklahoma City. Expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.piercefuneralhomes.com.