Bugher,
Forrest R., Jr. - WHS Alumni Class of 52
Manager With TVA For Over Thirty Years
Forrest Rexford Bugher Jr. died on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005.
He was born Feb. 1, 1934, and was the son of the late Forrest
Rexford Bugher, Sr. He was retired from TVA after 31 years of
service as a manager in the office of power. He served in the
U.S. Army and retired from the Tennessee National Guard as a master
sergeant.
He was a founding member of Christ United Methodist Church, a member of
the BYKOTA Sunday School Class and was a teacher and a past president of
the class. He was a past president of the Joy Group and a former computer
class teacher of the LIFE Group. He was a longtime member of the church
choir, and he had served as choir director at St. Paul’s United
Methodist Church.
He was a very active Freemason and was a Past Patron of Signal Mountain
Chapter OES 453, and a past master of Signal Mountain Lodge 758. He was a
plural member of Brainerd Lodge 736, where he served as secretary. He was
a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Alhambra Shrine and a member of the
National Sojourners. Forrest Bugher was a member of the
Chattanooga Choo-Choo Chorus for 31 years.
He is survived by his wife, Anita Ford Bugher; mother, Eunice Yoakum, of
Savannah, TN; sister, Carolyn Goodman, of Savannah; daughter, Shari
(Barry) Littlejohn, of Cadiz, KY; stepdaughter, Donette (Phil)
Satterfield, of Signal Mountain; stepsons, Larry (Inge) McAllister, of
Miami, FL, and Scott McAllister, of Signal Mountain; and five
grandchildren, Rachel Littlejohn, Alex and Jordan Satterfield, Jeffrey
McAllister and Christopher McAllister, of Fort Polk, LA.
Services were at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8 at Christ United Methodist Church.
Entombment was at Hamilton Memorial Gardens. Members of Brainerd
Lodge 736 F&AM and Signal Mountain Lodge 758 F&AM served as
pallbearers.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Chorus,
Signal Mountain Lodge 758, Brainerd Lodge 736 and the BYKOTA Sunday School
Class.
The family received friends from 4-8 p.m. Monday at the Valley View
Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Chattanooga, 4355 Highway
58, Chattanooga, TN 37415. Arrangements were by the Valley
View Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist, 7414 Old
Lee Highway. |
