FOSTER, Genevieve D. "Jennie" (Davis) 1874-1935

FOSTER, DAVIS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/15/2009 at 11:12:33

#1:

Mrs. Foster Will Be
Buried at Riceville;
Dies in New Mexico

RICEVILLE, May 6. — Mrs. Genevieve Foster, 60, widow of Frank F. Foster, died at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Saturday. The body will be brought here Tuesday. She lived on a farm near Mossville before coming to Riceville many years ago.

Surviving are two children, Earl, a farmer at Mossville. Maude, who lives at Albuquerque, and who has been in poor health.

Mrs. Foster succumbed to liver and spleen trouble.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Monday, May 6, 1935]

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#2:

Mrs. Foster Funeral Is Held at Riceville

RICEVILLE, IOWA - May 10. — Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Foster were held in the Methodist church Thursday afternoon. The Rev. F. Bodenham. assisted by the Rev. F. M. Garett conducting.

Mrs. Foster died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the body was brought to Riceville for burial in Riverside cemetery.

She is the mother of Earl Foster of Riceville. Her husband, Frank E. Foster, died several years ago.

[Mason City Globe-Gazette - Friday, May 10, 1935]

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NOTE:
She is listed as "Jennie" on the Riverside cemetery listing.

NOTE:
DM Scott, on findagrave.com, gives her date of birth as June 1874, and her middle initial as "D".

NOTE:
From the 1925 census, Iowa, Jenkins, Mitchell Census, for their son Earl: It lists his father as Frank E. Foster born in Iowa, and mother as Jennie Davis born in Nebraska.
(DM Scott)