St. Clair County Obits

JOYCE A. FOSTER

Hill & Son Funeral Home, LLC
September 3, 1932 - September 3, 2005 - Joyce Alberta Foster, daughter of William David and Ethel Mae (Ruby) Rowland, was born September 3, 1932 in Bay City, Texas. She passed away September 3, 2005 at Country Club Care Center in Warrensburg, Missouri at 73 years of age. Joyce spent her early childhood years in Fort Worth, Texas moving later to Clinton, Missouri where she was a 1951 graduate of Clinton High School. Joyce was united in marriage to Dean Audrey Foster February 21, 1952 in Appleton City, Missouri and made there home in Cambridge, England while he served in the U.S. Air Force. In 1954 they moved back to the U.S. residing in Appleton City until Dean’s death in 1998 at which time she moved to Knob Noster, Missouri. Mrs. Foster had been employed as an office worker at various times but had been happy to be a homemaker, wife and mother. She was a member of the Apple Dumplings Square Dance Club in Appleton City and a member of the First Christian Church in Knob Noster. Joyce loved spending time with her grandchildren. She liked cats and enjoyed sewing and quilting. She had sewed many of her square dancing outfits. Preceding Joyce in death were her parents and husband. Survivors include two sons, David Foster and wife Regina of El Dorado Springs, Missouri and Rusty Foster and wife Terrie of Knob Noster, Missouri; one sister Billie Young of Greenville, South Carolina; three grandsons, Ryan Foster and wife Shena of Maryville, Missouri and Christopher Foster and wife Sara of El Dorado Springs, Missouri and Aaron Foster of Knob Noster, Missouri; and two great-grandsons, Charlie and Wyatt Foster of El Dorado Springs, Missouri.