Malheur County OR Archives Obituaries.....Foster, Ruth C. 1976
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Nyssa Gate City Journal, April 8, 1976
Nyssa Gate City Journal
Nyssa, Oregon
Thurs. April 08, 1976

Ruth C. Foster

Services for Mrs. Ruth C. Foster 85, who died Monday April 5, 1976 in an 
Alaskan Airlines jetline crash in Ketchikan, Alaska, are pending at Lienkaemper 
Chapel in Nyssa. 

She was born October 14, 1890 in Longmont, Colorado. She was married to W. W. 
Foster, May 1, 1912 in Boulder, Colorado and came to Nyssa as a bride. She was 
very active in community affairs. She helped organize the local PTA, was a 
member of the Women’s Civic Club and a member of the Malheur Memorial Hospital 
Auxiliary. Religious activities were no small part of Mrs. Foster’s energetic 
life, having joined the Methodist Church at the age of ten. She was a mother of 
eight children and an Oregon Mother of the Year in 1958.

Surviving are her husband W. W. Foster; three sons, Howard Foster of Colusa, 
California, Curtis Foster of Burbank, California and the Rev. Tom Foster of 
Madras, California, four daughters, Mrs. Raymond (Crete) Sager of Nyssa, Mrs. 
Harold (Margaret Eleanor) Torgerson, Fox Home, Minnesota, Frances Foster of 
Pakistan, and Mrs. Charles (Grace) Wilson, Juneau, Alaska; two sisters, Mrs. 
Morris (Helen) Bowie, of Swathamore, Pennsylvania and Mrs. Crete Dever of 
Boulder, Colorado; 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by four brothers and one child, Phyllis Esther, 
January 1933.

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