Katherine Peyton Forbes
(March 6, 1925 - June 7, 2014)

Katherine “Kitty” Peyton Forbes, a rare and lovely light, left this world on June 7, 2014. She was 89 years old. Kitty Peyton grew up on Virginia Street, East in Charleston and later moved to Huntington upon her marriage to Murray Innes Forbes, Jr. Kitty was a member of Huntington’s Trinity Episcopal Church, the Huntington Museum of Art, the Guyan Country Club, the Huntington Junior League Garden Club, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in West Virginia (NSCDA – WV). Kitty was a tireless and long-serving board member of the Cammack Children’s Center. She was an avid tennis player and swimmer. She loved to travel. Above all, Kitty loved her family. She was a close and dear friend to many. Her friends ranged from the very young to the very old. Her smile and happy countenance and her kind words and deeds will always be remembered by those whose lives she touched. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband Murray Forbes in 1980, and more recently by her two brothers, James Fredrick Brown Peyton and Angus McDonald Peyton. She is survived by her four children: Katherine F. Wellford (John) of Charleston, West Virginia; Jane C.F. Harris (Mark) of Memphis, Tennessee; Murray I. Forbes III (Lyn); of Atlanta, Georgia; and B. Peyton Forbes (Anna) of Charleston, West Virginia. She is survived by nine grandchildren: Harrison and Landon; Katherine, Elizabeth, and Forbes; Sarah and Innes; Jillian and Oliver; and three great-grandchildren: Morgan and Brooke; and Piper.  The family would especially like to thank Bee Smith and the caring staff at the Woodlands. You were Kitty’s angels. There will be a service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Huntington at 11:00 a.m. Thursday. Visitation will be one hour before. Interment will follow at Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington. In lieu of flowers, Kitty would like you to remember Trinity Episcopal Church, the Huntington Museum of Art, or the NSCDA – WV (P.O. Box 175, Charleston, West Virginia).