Tory Oliver Andrew Fort
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| August 8, 1961 ~ May 4,
2011 |
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May 7, 2011 |
 Tory
Fort, 49 of Naples, passed away Wednesday, May
4, 2011 at his home.
Tory Oliver Andrew Fort was born Aug. 8, 196,1
in Sandpoint, Idaho, to Ellis Andrew Fort and
Gladys (Zordell) Fort on the hottest day (110
degrees) ever at that time. His father was in
the Air Force so they moved around a bit, ending
up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia where he
lived for the next four years. When his parents
divorced he and his family moved back to
Sandpoint, where he went through Sagle School.
At the age of 16 he went to Tongue Point Job
Corp at Astoria, Oregon for two years.
Tory met Julie Murphy and they had a son, TJ.
Tory was unable to find steady employment so he
went to California where he not only found jobs,
but married Bonnie Waters Leap Year Day 1984.
That marriage ended in divorce and he came back
to Sandpoint again. He found work at Beeman’s
Machinist Shop where he worked for the next
three or four years.
His sister needed help, so Tory quit his job and
went to Salt Lake City, Utah, to help her out.
After a year they moved back to Sandpoint with
her three children.
Tory went back to work at Beeman’s again and
worked there for the next few years. After a
second marriage failed he moved to Springfield,
Oregon, where his mother and step-father were
living and lived there for three years. He
worked at Country Coach doing all of the
electrical work on the big multi-million dollar
motor homes with the last being for Ernest
Borgnine, who he got to know quite well and
delighted in having known him, telling many
stories about that.
Once again Tory moved back to Sandpoint where he
would stay for the rest of his life, working at
Wal-Mart in the automotive department for
several years before working for several other
companies followed by long stretches of
unemployment.
Tory loved roaming the forests, fishing on the
small lakes, eagerly awaiting the time to find
the first morel and what he called Calf’s Brains
mushrooms, which he would always take to his
mother for Mother’s Day.
Tory had a huge sense of humor and dearly loved
pulling jokes on all of his family and friends.
He would give you the shirt off of his back if
he thought you needed it worse than he did.
He is survived by his five children: Patrick and
Raeann Fort, Tulare, California, TJ Fort, who is
a long haul truck driver, Elizabeth and John
Morris, Lawrence, Kansas, Andrew Fort, Ponderay,
Sylvia Fort, Torrance, California; grandsons
Bryce, Brock, Aiden and Sebastian; brothers Tim
Fort, Kellogg, Tracy, Spirit Lake and the sister
he prayed to get, Tonya and Daniel Petruss,
Spokane; his mother Gladys Larson and his
step-father he thought so much of and was always
doing special little things for through the 16
years that he was a part of Tory’s family, Art
Larson, Naples. |
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