- Joseph Wilmer Foster
Family oand friends were shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Joseph Wilmer Foster on Monday, October 27, 1969, at his late residence, cause of death being a coronary. He was 60 years of age.
Son of the late Archibald Foster and Frances Gibson, he was born on August, 2 1909 at the 11th line of Bathurst. He attended school on the 11th line until the age of 10 yers when he moved with his parents and brothers and sisters to the 8th line of Bathurst. Here he completed his education.
On April 15, 1942, at the Anglican Church, Maberly, Joe was united in marriage to Eleanor Jean Warrington and to this union were born three daughters and one son.
A lifelong resident of Bathurst, he farmed for a number of years until 1968 when he sold his farm and moved to the 8th line schoolhouse which he had purchased and converted to a home for he andhis family. At the time of his death he was employed at the H. and H.D. Card Lumber Co.
Left to mourn his oss are his wife, three daughters, Glenice (Mrs. Budd Smith), Bathurst; Donna (Mrs Geraold Myers), Balderson; Sandra (Mrs Robert Moore), Perth, and one son, Bradford, at home. Also surviving are six sisters, Nellie (Mrs Robert Ennis), Fallbrook; Jessie (Mrs Charles Smith), New York City, NY; Violet (Mrs Calvin Code), Innisville; Sadie (Mrs. William Mather, Perth; Frances (Mrs Harold Blair), Wemyss; Gertie (Mrs Oscar Skaug), Perth; and three brothers, James, David and Charles, all of Bathurst. He is also survived by five grandchildren.
The funeral service was conducted on Thursday, October 30 from the Morrow Funeral Home, Perth, to St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Brooke. Interment was in St. Stephen's Cemetery, Brooke. Rev. James Boyles officiated.
Acting pallbearers were John Rogers, Stanley McDougall, Jim Rutherford, Bill Nagle, Don Card and Lloyd McVeigh.
There were nine flowerbearers, all nephews of the deceased. They were Earl Foster, Leslie Foster, Barry Purdy, Archie Foster, Ken Blair, Doug Foster, Russell Foster, Cecil Ennis and Bill Mather.
The large number who paid their respects at the funeral home, the numerous floral tributes, donations to the Ontario Heart Foundation and messages of sympathy received gave evidence of the great esteem in which he was held. He will be greatly missed by all those in the community and by all who knew him.
The Perth Courier
Perth, Ontario, Canada
27 November 1969, pg. 13
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1909 - 1969 (60 years)
