St. Clair County Obits

THEODORE P. FOREMAN, SR.

Clinton Daily Democrat
11 July 2003 
Theodore
Paul Foreman, Sr. was born September 12, 1919, in Kansas City, to Paul Melville and Virginia "Turnham"
Foreman, and died July 9, 2003, at the Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola. He was raised in the Kansas City
area and then picked apples in New York. He worked with his father on the Rock Island Railroad. He joined
the Navy in 1940 and had the rank of First class Signalman when he was honorably discharged October 30,
1944. In April 1943, he married Frances Starbird and to this union five children were born. He worked as a
painter for the G.M. Leads Plant in Kansas City. In 1951, he relocated to Lowry City and attended GI
School. He owned the Highway Cafe and Ted's 66 Service Station in Lowry City. In 1958 he went to work for Bendix, later known as Allied Signal (now known as Honeywell) where he retired in March 1983.
On December 7, 1958, he married Minnie Louise Lasley and to this union five children were born.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Frances Brown; one daughter, Patricia Lee Foreman; one son, Theodore Paul "Teddy" Foreman, Jr.; one grandson, Edgar David "Eddie" Geisinger II; second wife, Minnie Louise Foreman and one sister, Thelma Elizabeth Foreman.
He is survived by his eight children, Virginia E. "Ginny" and Seth Wade of Raytown, Judith A. "Judy" McCune, Raytown, Lurae Foreman of Kansas City, Randy Dean and Jeanie Foreman of Pleasant Hill, Robert William "Bob" Foreman of Stockton, Kathy L. and Richard Wilkerson of Clinton, Norma Jean Moran of Littleton, Colorado, Irvin Melville "Mel" and Brenda Foreman of Lowry City; two sisters, Martha Virginia "Ginger" Fox of Independence and Graycemae Patricia Crawford of Independence, 22 grandchildren and 19
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Saturday, July 12, at the Sheldon-Goodrich Funeral Home with burial in the Lowry City Cemetery.