Birth date: Jun 10, 1967 Death date: Apr 20, 2022
Charles “Stormchaser” Forhan, age 54, passed from this life on Wednesday April 20, 2022 in Tulsa, OK. He was born June 10, 1967 in St Louis, MO to Maurice and Barbara Forhan (Cantrell). He lived his early years in Phoeniz, AZ and Read Obituary
Charlie was on of the Shriners/ my dads friends that called me texted me and supported me while I shipped to bootcamp for the Marine Corps he became a good friend of my mine he also came to my coming home party and was so proud of me it’s rare to come across a soul as pure as his
I met Charlie the first time in the summer of 1984. I was a OHP Pilot working out of Wiley Post Airport in Bethany, OK. I flew out to the old Clinton Sherman AFB in early June to help with the Cadet Lawman Academy. One of the young men flying with me that day had a perpetual big grin and infectious laugh. He said his name was Charlie and we had some fun on that flight. Now, considering I made 12 years of Cadet Lawman Academy before transferring into another division I had no way of keeping up with all the fine young men and women I had contact with through the years.
Now fast forward into the mid 1990s. I had retired from the OHP and after a couple stops at different trucking operations I found myself at a large company in Muskogee, OK, signed on to hopefully get them back into hte good graces of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. I usually had the drivers come visit in my office so we could get meet and get a good understanding of how we needed to operate as a carrier. This one young man comes in and plops down across from me with the biggest grin I've seen a quite a spell. He jus sat there grinning and finally said...."You don't remember me do ya". I said I guess not, have you driven for me somewhere? "Nope, but you took me flying back in 1984." After some conversation he mentioned something about some hotshot aviator showing some kids how negative gravity worked and some poor kid in the back seat reached out and grabbed my pistol as it floated by. Charlie and I became good friends after that and I was elated when he entered into the Masonic Brotherhood. In fact I took him a book someone had given me years before called Morals and Dogma. I hope it gets passed on to someone who will embrace it with the same fervor as Charlie.
Now it's down to this, we have lost a fine young man who loved God, his family and his country. I will tell you this, there is a hole in my heart because I lost a dear friend and a Brother. Rest easy my Brother, I will abide by my sacred oath and be there for whatever Susan or Mason may be in need of.
Tom Ysbrand
OHP Retired
