Foster, Verona Pearce 1922-2012

FOSTER, SELLE, PEARCE, COX, MORRISON, DETRIC, GREINER, KRUMM, BRINKMEYER

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 9/11/2016 at 17:15:43

The Poweshiek County CR
March 21, 2012

VERONA PEARCH FOSTER, 89

Verona Pearce Foster, 89, passed away March 13, 2012, at the Mayflower Care Center in Grinnell surrounded by her family. Memorial services were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at the Carmen Center in the Mayflower Care Center in Grinnell with a reception following the service. Burial of her cremated remains was held in the Westfield Cemetery in rural Grinnell following the reception. Memorials may be directed to the Mayflower Human Needs Endowment Fund. Friends may send condolences or sign the online guestbook at www.hollandcoblefuneralhomes.com. Holland Coble Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Verona was born on Aug. 19, 1922 in Grinnell, to Herbert and Rose (Selle) Pearce. She graduated from Grinnell High School in 1940. Verona was united in marriage to Bennie Russell Foster in 1942. After they were married, Bennie and Verona farmed in and around the Grinnell and Montezuma areas for many years. Verona worked in dress shops in Grinnell, Montezuma and Fairfield. She also had her insurance license, where she helped Bennie in the insurance business in Chariton for many years. Verona never knew a stranger and she could easily talk to anyone. She kept herself involved in activities with family and friends. Verona loved spending time with her family, playing golf and driving her convertibles.

She will be missed by her surviving family, Ron (Martha) Foster of Pleasant Hill, and Charlotte (Dave) Cox of McMinnville, Ore.; her six grandchildren: Todd, Amy, Lisa, Gail, Doug and Darin; nine great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Lorene Morrison, Doris Jean Detric, Evelyn Greiner and Carolyn Krumm.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Bennie; her daughter, Sue Brinkmeyer; and grandson, Gregg Brinkmeyer.