Wilhel Eliza Forbes was born on April 30th, 1934, in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, to her loving parents, Frederick Steer, and Mabel Johnson. In 1968, she migrated from Kingston, Jamaica to Cleveland, Ohio to the Visconti Family in search of a better life.

Wilhel was extremely family-oriented and strong-willed woman who was always ready to “dish” out her motherly advice. She always had Jamaican food on the stove, hot and ready for company, the charcoal grill going during the summer, the TV ready for Sunday football to see her beloved Browns, and the house phone close by for all her friends to call and chat with the latest news. If she wasn’t in the house, then she was at work for her dedicated Visconti Family. It was here her famous nickname “Willie” was created.

After retirement, she spent her time tending to her flower beds, cooking meals for the house, loving her late husband William, and caring for her children all the way to her grandbabies across generations.

Wilhel leaves to mourn, as an angel came to her bedside on December 19, 2024 , her sister Imogene Smith, children Dawn (Gilbert), Leroy (Ann-Marie), Michael (deceased) (Menia), Devon (Toni), and Felicia Forbes; grandchildren Denisha, Tameka, Thomas, Stacey( Jamel Sr.) and Andrew; great grandchildren Desean, Denasia, Kazai, Davon, Jamel “Junior” and a host of family and friends.