Grace Norma Forrester, age 93, a retired Exxon administrative assistant and homemaker, from Granite Shoals, Texas flew up into her Savior’s arms on Sunday evening, December 7, 2025. Grace was born on June 12, 1932 in San Saba, Texas to Lela Lee Anderson / Hall and Fred Monroe Hall. After graduating from San Saba High School, she worked as a reported for the San Saba News / Star and shortly later married the love of her life, Raymond Forrester on 12/22/53, after he started his army duties earlier that year. After that she moved to Oklahoma to be with him until his service time ended on 6/10/55. They then moved to Houston, Texas where she started working for Exxon, which was then Humble Oil, until her early retirement in 1993. They then decided to move up to the “Hill Country” area to be closer to relatives and enjoy a less stressful living area. Consequently, they bought a nice home with a big yard in Granite Shoals, Texas that was very suitable for them and their pets.
Since growing up in a very religious family, being a church member was always very important to her. It all started at the San Saba Full Gospel as a child, attending with her mother, siblings and aunts. When she lived in Houston, she was always church going too. Once she moved to the Marble Falls, Texas area, she starting going with her neighbor, Judy Jowers, to the First Assembly of God church where she made so many new friends and blessed so many lives through the years since. Grace was a great nurturer and loved so much being able to help take care of any of her relatives and friends that needed help to keep on living. Her greatest desire was to be able to see them all again in heaven when all their times came!
Grace and husband Ray, never had no children of their own. She came from a mother who did have seven of them, with Grace being next to the oldest, which was her sister Johnnie. She outlived them all, except for the youngest one, her brother Gordon Hall who now lives up in Washington State. Grace still has alive a cousin, Gary Dale Linn, a niece, Tammy Adams / Dyer and a nephew, Ken Hall. Gary has been living with Grace for the last 13 + years and they both have provided good living assistance to each other as needed over the years. Tammy lives out in Moline, TX on her father’s family’s sheep ranch. Ken recently moved from his mother’s old estate in East Texas to be closer to his kids that live in Tennessee.
Grace was preceded in death by her parents, Fred & Lela, her sister, Johnnie Comer / Adams; brothers: Jim (James), Charles (Raymond), Warren, and Tommy. Grace’s mother’s family, the Anderson’s, provided her with many aunts and nieces and nephews in the San Saba area that she outlived as well too.
In January 2026 there is a planned to be “Celebration of Life” for Grace at her Marble Falls First Assembly of God church that might be lived stream as well. It will be officiated by its pastor, Bob Wise. Her, “sort of adopted son”, George Leader (also a pastor) has arranged it all. George has been more like a loving son helping Grace and husband Ray make it through life’s bad and good times for the last 25 years or so. At the celebration, it is planned that some of life’s impactful songs for Grace, like: “Amazing Grace”, “12th of June” (her birthdate) and “Go Rest High on that Mountain” will be heard. If she gets really lucky, her best buddy at Exxon, Bernell Lovett, her son Lyle Lovett might be there to sing them too, wow! If not, they will be audio played by their singers respectively: Alan Jackson, Lyle Lovett, and Vince Gill.
Grace and her husband Ray’s cremated ashes have already been buried in front of their beautiful headstone at Wallace Creek cemetery in San Saba County (her birthplace county) on December 15th, just a short distance from her mother and father’s burial spot. God Bless!
