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Portrait of Preston Lee Forbes
In loving memory

Preston Lee Forbes

May 15, 1954 – June 29, 2018
Lived 64 years
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
Life story

Preston was born in Moyock, NC, May 15, 1954, to the late Milton and Elsie Jenkins Forbes. He enjoyed the outdoors. He had pleasure in riding four-wheelers with his family and enjoyed fishing. He was a Mopar Muscle Car enthusiast. Preston dearly loved his family and was a loving husband, "Deddy", and grandpa.

Surviving is his wife of 43 years, Glenda Long Forbes of the home; sons, Brian Lee Forbes and wife, Joanne, of Roanoke Rapids, and Steven Lee Forbes and girlfriend, Danielle Silvestri, of Wilmington; grandchildren, Briann, Brooke, Braxton Forbes; his sisters, Belinda Leonard and Deborah Hartley.

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1954
Born May 15
1958
Preston was 4 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1969
Preston was 15 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1976
Preston was 22 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1981
Preston was 27 when MTV began broadcasting
1998
Preston was 44 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2001
Preston was 47 when Apple introduced the iPod
2016
Preston was 62 when Pokemon Go sent millions outdoors hunting creatures
2018
Passed away June 29, age 64
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