Michael Aldrich Forrester, a third-generation owner of the former EO Media Group, died Feb. 3 in Bend at the age of 86. During his long career with the company, Forrester was editor of The Daily Astorian, the East Oregonian and the Capital Press, of which he was also publisher.
His death came at the end of a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease.
Born in Corvallis in September 1938, Forrester was the son of J.W. Forrester and Eleanor Aldrich Forrester. Eleanor and her sister Amy gave birth on the same day. That cousin, Jacqueline Bedford Brown, preceded Mike in her 2009 death. Forrester’s brother Steve is the remaining third-generation owner of the family’s newspaper company…