Beckham County, OK - Obits: William Thomas Foster, 1924
29 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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FOSTER, WILLIAM THOMAS
(2 Oct 1924, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
DEATH OF W. T. FOSTER.
Mrs. J. L. White, St. Francis hotel, received word today of the death of
her grandfather, William Thomas Foster, in Washington, yesterday following
an operation for appendicitis.  Mr. Foster, 87 years old and a native
Missourian, had been noted as a long range weather forecaster.  His weekly
and monthly bulletins from the national capital have had a wide
circulation in agricultural districts.
Surviving Mr. Foster are the widow and four children.  The youngest son,
Ralph D. Foster, is a resident of St. Joseph. - Kansas City News-Press.
Mr. Foster was born in Illinois, and came to St. Joseph forty-six years
ago.  The family home was at Twenty-fourth and Charles streets during the
later years of his residence here.  He served as captain of a Missouri
regiment in the Civil War, and afterward was active in the G.A.R.  He was
a member of the Masonic lodge, and notice of the death was received this
morning by Fred Heyde, secretary of St. Joseph Lodge No. 78, A. F. & A. M.
Scientific articles written by Mr. Foster have been published in many
newspapers and periodicals throughout the United States, and during the
last several years he had been contributing largely to publications of
Canada.  During a period of his residence in St. Joseph he was editorial
writer on the old Herald, and he also published a weather weekly under the
caption of "Foster's Forecasts."
He was married in 1865 to Nancy Bryant of Bethany, Mo.  - St. Joseph
News-Press.

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