Gladys E. Forrest

A resident of Baton Rouge and native of Greenville, Ala., she passed away Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, at her home with family and her loving pets, Sam and Sandy. She was 90 and was retired from Kroger's Grocery. Visitation at Greenoaks Funeral Home, 9595 Florida Blvd., on Wednesday, Dec. 28, from 9 a.m. until funeral service at 10 a.m. Interment will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 4000 Monroe Highway 165, Ball. She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Janet Herrod Forrest; two grandsons, Raymond B. Forrest and Jeffery A. Forrest and wife Michelle; two great-grandchildren, Hunter and Haley Forrest, and their mother, Valarie Devilier; two step great grandchildren, Alyssa and Tyler William;

siblings-in-law, Jim and Marilyn Forrest, Bobby Forrest, Bill and Ruth Forrest, Betty Lavespere and Vicky Forrest; nieces and nephews, Minnie Ruth Abrahamson, Betty Clark, Myrtle Simmons and Tommy Fleming; several other loving nieces and nephews; caregivers, Minni Ruth Abrahamson, Melissa Caldwell, Kay Davis and Marilyn Forrest; and best friend, Elgiemae Berthelot. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond O. Forrest Sr.; parents, Jessie and Ruth Massey Armstrong; son, Raymond "Sonny" O. Forrest Jr.; sisters, Ruth Fleming and husband Grover and Ollie Horton; and siblings-in-law, Gene Lavespere, Hilda Forrest and Jerry Forrest. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to St. Joseph Hospice, Veterans Administration or Friends of LSU Rural Life Museum.