Weymon H. Forrester

Weymon H. Forrester, 84, died peacefully at home in Gainesville, Georgia, on January 14th, 2026. Born January 8, 1942, in Blue Ridge, Georgia, he was the son of Carl Forrester and Vivian Hogan Forrester. The main goal in his parents' lives was to see that their children, Weymon and Boyce, were well educated and equipped for a good life. They succeeded. When Weymon was nine, the family moved from Blue Ridge to Canton, where he attended Cherokee High School, excelling in sports as well as academics. He once held the single game scoring record in basketball, and he won multiple events in track and field.

After graduating from Emory University and Emory Law School, he began his law career as a clerk for Judge Griffin Bell, then a Circuit Judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and later the Attorney General of the United States. Weymon believed he acquired ways of thinking and evaluating cases from Judge Bell that led to his professional success. He accepted a job in Gainesville with the Whelchel, Dunlap and Gignilliat firm, where he practiced for 22 years before forming Forrester and Brim with Jim Brim. As he headed toward retirement, that firm merged with Huff Powell Bailey in Atlanta, where Weymon extended his practice and served as a mentor to countless younger lawyers, continuing Judge Bell’s legacy well into his eighties.

While he started with a general law career, he gravitated toward litigation, which involved the defense of civil cases for members of the medical profession. During the course of that practice, for more than fifty years, he developed life-long friendships and earned high acclaim in the medical and legal worlds. He received national recognition in 1984 when he was named a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, and he was active in that elite organization for the remainder of his career. The Trial Section of the State Bar of Georgia also honored him, in 2019, with the Tradition of Excellence Award, which recognizes exceptional contributions made by a lawyer to his profession and community. Weymon served formerly as President of the Gainesville Northeastern Bar Association and Vice President of the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association. In all these capacities, he treated not just his clients and colleagues, but everyone he knew with respect, decency, civility, and compassion. He loved his work, and he did it with immense integrity.

But above all else, he loved his family. If you met him, he wanted to talk first about his grandchildren, including, recently, his new great-grandson. He took more pride in the accomplishments of his boys, grandsons, and granddaughters than in his own, and his fondest memories were of playing or watching sports with those kids—baseball, football, basketball, pole-vaulting, and most fervently, golf. Weymon and Nancy would travel anywhere in the country to watch a son or grandson play golf, especially for Georgia Tech. Late in life he became an avid snow skier, and he made sure each grandchild learned to ski and got to join him on trips to the Rocky Mountains. Traveling out west rekindled his love of horses-he had ridden with his Papa as a child-and he studied Western culture collecting traditional Western art. He knew how much God had blessed him.

He is survived by his wife, Nancy, three sons, Weymon Forrester, Jr. (Ansley), Emmett Forrester (Julie), Carlton Forrester (Katie), step-daughter, Christine Budzik (Jason), grandchildren, Weymon Forrester, Ill (Elise), William Forrester, Evelyn Forrester, Bartley Forrester, Lydia Forrester, Carlton Forrester, Jr., Henry Forrester, Brendan Forrester and one great grandchild, Boh McLellan Forrester, as well as a number of close relatives in the Hogan and Forrester families.

In addition to his parents, he is predeceased by his brother Carl Forrester, Jr., sister, Boyce Leni, daughter-in-law Carol Forrester, and great-grandchild Thomas Patrick Forrester.

Services will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, 422 Brenau Ave, NE, Gainesville, GA 30501, on Saturday, February 7, 2026, at 2:00 p.m., with reception following immediately after at Chattahoochee Country Club, 3000 Club Dr., Gainesville, GA 30506.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorial gifts be made to Good News Clinics online at goodnewsclinics.org/donate or by mail, 810 Pine Street, Gainesville, GA 30501.

Memorial Park Riverside Chapel, 989 Riverside Drive, Gainesville, GA 30501. 770-297-6200. For online condolences www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com  

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