Ethel Foster

Graveside services for life long Crook County resident Ethel A. Foster, 93, will be held at 11:00 am Monday, February 19th at Green Mountain Cemetery near Sundance with Pastor Mick Bohn of Newcastle Foursquare Church officiating. Worden Funeral Directors of Newcastle have been entrusted with the arrangements.

Mrs. Foster died Thursday, February 15th at Sheridan Manor, in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Ethel was born December 7, 1913 the daughter of Frank B. and Elizabeth Kozma Toth. She received her elementary education in the Burns School near Inyan Kara Mountain walking 2 ½ miles to school. She was united in marriage to Delbert D. Foster May 4, 1937 in Newcastle, Wyoming. They lived on the Toth ranch until 1939 when they moved to Moon, South Dakota where they cut posts and took care of sheep. In the fall of 1939, they moved to the Teepee Ranger Station, South Dakota where Delbert worked at a sawmill. In 1940 they moved again to another sawmill in Custer, South Dakota. They moved back to the Toth Ranch in November, 1943 where Ethel resided until her death.
Ethel loved to sew, read, hunt, fish and bowl with Delbert. She also liked to cook, garden, and loved flowers. She never knew a stranger that was always welcome and she shared with everyone. Ethel was like a mother to everyone, especially to little kids. She also loved animals. She made pets of many stray cats and dogs. Some she nursed even back to health.

Preceding her in death were her parents, beloved husband Delbert in 1994, three sisters and five brothers.

Survivors include one son Michael Bessie Foster of Webster City, Iowa; two sisters, Irma Lampert and Edith Sackett; two grandsons, Chad Suzie Foster of Webster City, Iowa, Shawn Foster and friend Jana of Dodge City, Iowa; great granddaughters Sarah, Abby, Emma and Kendy; great?great grandson Eathen Patterson. Also surviving is a special niece and nephew Joann & Carl Salyer of Sundance who were more like a daughter and son to her.