Dorothy “Dort” Dean Forister, 84, died Oct. 14, 2010 at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Oklahoma City, Okla.
She was born June 27, 1926 in Quay, Okla., to Maude and Ira Wilson Collins. Raised and educated in Oklahoma, she attended beauty school and became a beautician. In 1949, she moved to Oregon, where she worked and taught cosmetology for 30 years. She was a longtime resident of Sweet Home before moving back to Oklahoma in 2004.