MAXINE FOSTER

LAMAR- Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, at Daniel Funeral Home for Helen Maxine Foster, 93, Lamar, who died Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, at Carthage Health and Rehab Center. Burial will follow in St. James Cemetery, north of Milford.

Contributions are suggested to Grace Christian Assembly, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include her children, Shirley Cornell and husband Clay, Lewisberg, PA, Jewell Foster and wife Gynith, Fort Smith, Ark., Terry Foster and wife Carolyn, Blanchard, Okla. and Rosalyna Kay Foster, Lamar; a sister, Dorothy Small, Sheridan, Wyo.; 14 grandchildren and several great and great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Everett Glass; two sisters, Delpha Nystrom and Phyllis Glass; a granddaughter, Charlene Swaim; two grandsons, Zachary Pipes and Ayden Wood and two great-great-grandbabies.

Mrs. Foster was born Feb. 18, 1925, in St. Joseph, to Richard Bland and Fleta Gay (Kanatzar) Glass. She graduated from high school in Worland, Wyo., in 1943. She married Jack William Foster on Oct. 8, 1945, and they made their home in Kansas City, Clay Center and Atchison, Kan., before moving to Barton County. During WWII, she worked on milling machines at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. She also taught grade school for one term at Oak Grove School in Barton County and was an Avon representative.

She was always active in the church, teaching Sunday school, helping in the youth group and women’s group and had served as church secretary for several years. While living in Barton County, she was active at Grace Christian Assembly near Verdella.