Daniel Miller Forrest died [date] due to [cause of death]. He was born in Greenwood, South Carolina, in December 1948 and lived most of his youth in Saluda, South Carolina.
He moved to Rock Hill in 1972 after graduation from the University of South Carolina and fulfillment of his active duty military obligation. He taught English for 34 years and held a wide variety of other jobs.
He and his high school sweetheart Nita P. Forrest were married [years] and had a son, Chris, a daughter, Danielle, and two grandchildren, Hannah Forrest Bailey and Grace Forrest. Next to his family he loved nature, art, and intelligent public discourse most of all.
He was fond of saying “I have had a full life and in no way deserved all of the advantages I fell into by virtue of my birth in the right country at the right time.” He often remarked that he felt a kind of guilt for being a lucky American with more than adequate material possessions and good health.
He did not believe in God but had an abiding faith in humanity. He intended for his websites danielforrest.org and dmforrest.smugmug.com to survive him for a while as a way for people who remembered him to know something more about how he lived his life and what he thought.
He loved to camp and pre-selected Site 178 in Passages I at Kings Mountain Preserve for his permanent camp site in death. His favorite charity was the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
Danny Forrest 
I was fortunate to have Mr. Forrest as a teacher in the late 1980’s at a time I flirted with delusions of being a budding young republican with a voracious appetite for reading the works of Tom Clancy and I remember the patience with which Mr. Forrest would pull down a world map and explain certain realities of the world that were imposed by basic geography. He presaged (for me) the fall of the Soviet Union and his clear thinking and concise articulation of common sense stuck with me through college and even to this day as he challenged me to think, and I will forever be in his debt for having taken that time to do so as he challenged me intellectually, and my life is richer for having been so challenged. Having discovered this website, I have so thoroughly enjoyed reading the miscellaneous ramblings of an intellect that I was fortunate to have had access to at such a critical juncture in my life and I hope that the delay in further exposition from February has not rendered this formerly advanced obituary to be of a timelier variety. Which is to say I hope that I have not missed an opportunity to have said Thank You. Phil Murdock NWHS 1989
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