Primary Name: Johnstone, Rita
Filed as: johnstone_rita
Also known as: Marguerite Forrest Johnstone, Marguerite "Rita" Forrest, Rita Forrest, Rita Van Hevelingen
Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6; beauty parlor operator
Born: February 2, 1896, Juneau, Alaska
Died: May 28, 1962, Portland, Oregon
Parents: George Frank Forrest; Anna May "Annie" Shellooe Forrest; stepmother Selma Marie Berg Forrest
Spouse: Byron W. Johnstone (m. May 10, 1914; div.); Nicolass Van Hevelingen (m. April 19, 1928)
Children: Frances Lovetta Johnstone
Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Seattle, Washington; Vancouver, Washington; Portland, Oregon
Keywords: Rita Johnstone, Marguerite Forrest Johnstone, Rita Forrest, Rita Van Hevelingen, Forrest family Juneau, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6
Biography
Marguerite “Rita” Forrest Johnstone was a charter member of the Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Women’s Auxiliary No. 6.
She was born in Juneau, Alaska, on February 2, 1896, the daughter of George Frank Forrest and Anna May “Annie” Shellooe Forrest. Her mother died in 1898, and her father later remarried Selma Marie Berg Forrest.
On May 10, 1914, Rita married Byron W. Johnstone in Juneau. Their daughter, Frances Lovetta Johnstone, was born in Juneau on September 4, 1915. Rita later divorced Byron Johnstone, and by the 1920 U.S. Census, she and her daughter were living with her father in Seattle, Washington.
She remarried on April 19, 1928, in Vancouver, Washington, to Nicolass Van Hevelingen. The couple lived in Portland, Oregon, where Rita worked as a beauty parlor operator, and her husband worked as a florist.
Rita Johnstone died in Portland, Oregon, on May 28, 1962.
Sources
1900 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau, Alaska; 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; Alaska Marriage Certificate; 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Seattle, Washington; 1940 U.S. Federal Census, Portland, Oregon; Washington Marriage Record; Alaska Daily Empire, September 15, 1935