Foster, Lewis Elmer 1913-2004

FOSTER, DEPUE, SWANSON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/7/2007 at 21:39:05

MOVILLE, Iowa -- Lewis Elmer Foster, 91, of Moville died Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at a Sioux City nursing home.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Moville United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Harold E. Werley officiating. Burial will be in Arlington Township Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a Masonic service at 7 p.m., at Christy-Smith McCulloch Chapel in Moville.

Mr. Foster was born Jan. 16, 1913, in Moville, the son of Lewis and Nettie (DePue) Foster. He was raised in Moville, where he attended school. He graduated from Moville High School in 1931. He continued his education at Morningside College in Sioux City.

He married Gladys Swanson on March 16, 1940, in Hinton, Iowa. Together, they farmed in the Moville area. Gladys died Jan. 9, 2004, in Sioux City.

He was a member of Moville United Methodist Church, where he was a longtime member of the administrative church board, a past Sunday School teacher and superintendent. He was also a past Master and 60-year member of the Masonic Trial Lodge 532 in Moville, a past Patron of the Arlington Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and a 30-year member of the Sioux City Scottish Rite Bodies.

He was a former president of the Woodbury County Farm Bureau, an 18-year member and past president of the Moville School board and a past president of the Farmer's Mutual Insurance board. He was very active in 4-H, a longtime seed corn dealer, a former Little League coach and a member of the Meadows Country Club. He always enjoyed going to the Woodbury County Fair and had served on the fair board. He helped organize the Moville Senior Center, where he was very active and in 1978 won the Woodbury County Conservationist Award.

Survivors include four children and their spouses, Raymond and Irene Clause, Jack and Marcy Foster, Betty Ann and Larry Epling and Bud and Eilene Foster, all of Moville; a brother and his wife, Homer and Elsie Foster of Moville; a sister and her husband, Florence and Virgil Wood of Sioux City; 12 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Doug Foster.

~source: The Sioux City Journal