Nina Campbell Forshay, 86, of Hudson, died Dec. 28, 2009, at the Crown Center Nursing Facility at Laurel Lake Retirement Community in Hudson. Mrs. Forshay was formerly a resident of Montclair, N.J., for more than 65 years.
Mrs. Forshay was born in Jersey City, N.J. She was the daughter of Madeline (nee Boycott) and Parker Campbell of Montclair. She was a graduate of Montclair High School and a 1943 graduate from Bradford Junior College.
She married Montclair resident David Forshay Jr. in April 1944. Following World War II they returned to Montclair to raise their family. Mrs. Forshay served as both a Girl Scout and Boy Scout leader of her daughter and son's troops. She worked for the Montclair Board of Education as an educational aide and microcomputer coordinator. She retired in 1992.
The Forshays enjoyed traveling. They spent summers for 30 years on Lake George in New York, and went yearly to Bermuda, Skytop in Pennsylvania, The Tides in Virginia, and to Maine. Mrs. Forshay was an avid swimmer and shared a love of the New York Giants and New York theater with her husband.
She volunteered with the Mountainside Hospital, Red Cross and Presby Gardens. She was an active member of Union Congregational Church for 35 years. Most recently, she was a member of Hudson's Stroke Survivors Group at the Laurel Lake Retirement Community where she lived.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, David, and is survived by her son, David Campbell Forshay of Diamond Point, N.Y., and his wife, Judy; daughter, Nina "Betsy" Forshay MacLeod and her husband, Rod, of Hudson; five grandchildren, David James and Daniel K. Forshay of Diamond Point, N.Y., R. Scott MacLeod of Louisville, Ky., and Peter C. MacLeod and Bonnie MacLeod Luker of Hudson; great-grandchildren, Maxwell Christopher Luker, Thaddeus Everett Luker and David James Forshay Jr.
Memorial gifts made be made through the Mountainside Hospital Foundation office, to the Heart Failure Unit at Mountainside Hospital, I Bay Ave., Montclair, NJ, 07042. Arrangements were handled by Johnson-Romito Funeral Home.