The Funeral Service for Moie Alton (Slim) Fortenberry will be 11AM, Friday, January 13, 2023, at the Cullman Funeral Home Chapel. The visitation will be 5-7PM, Thursday, January 12, 2023, at Cullman Funeral Home. Rev. Steve Rodgers will officiate the service. The interment will be in the Jones Chapel Cemetery.
Cullman Funeral Home is honored to serve the Fortenberry Family.
Moie Alton (Slim) Fortenberry, 89, of Jones Chapel, Alabama, passed away on January 8, 2023 at Hanceville Nursing Home. Slim was born on May 4, 1933 to Wiley Waymon and Euna Cleo Fortenberry in the Sardis community of Winston County Alabama, where his nickname was “Bookie.” He married Gwendlyn June Morton on June 2, 1955. He was in the Army from 1953 -1955 and later worked many years for Petrolane Gas Company and retired from Greif Brothers Trucking.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Larry Alton Fortenberry; his wife, Gwendlyn June Morton Fortenberry; his brothers, Duel Fortenberrry, Allton “Dyke” Fortenberry; his sisters, Octavia Caudle, Arleve Pigg, and Billie Lee Gable.
Mr. Fortenberry is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Rodney and Sondra Bagwell; his son and daughter-in-law, Johnny and Penny Fortenberry; three granddaughters, Kelsey Bree Bragwell, Kayla and Hunter Looney, Kara and Garrett Seymore; and great grandchildren, Madi Reece Goble, and soon to be born, Colter Chase Looney, and Myla Gwendolyn Seymore.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy can be posted to www.cullmanfuneralhome.com for the Fortenberry family.
