Franklin News-Herald, December 22, 1967:
Mrs. Edith Foster, 90, who spent much of her life as a resident of Chapmanville, died in the Meadville City Hospital at 2 p.m. Thursday following a several months' illness. In recent years she had been residing at 354 Autumn Drive, Meadville.
She was born near Sugar Lake on Sept. 15, 1877, a daughter of Warren and Sarah Brink Hanks and she spent her early life in that area. She was married to Sherman Foster and he died in 1953. For 63 years she lived in Chapmanville where she was a member of the Community Church and the Diamond Grange. She also belonged to the Senior Citizens Club of Meadville.
Mrs. Foster was a remarkable person with a keen memory and great ability for doing things. She was interested in herbs and their uses in cooking and for medicine. She made much of her own medicine using old and treasured recipes and until the last few years she went to the fields and woods and collected her own herbs.
For many years she was a regular participant in the curb market at Titusville, selling vegetables, fruits, herbs, soil from the woods, baked goods, milk, butter and eggs. She curtailed this practice when she was 82 and had to quit driving her car.
She liked to memorize poems and stories and until last year would entertain clubs and gatherings with these "pieces."
She is survived by a son, Hazen Foster, of Warren, Ohio; a step-daughter, Mrs. Hattie Proper, of Chapmanville; four grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Andrew Hanks, of Cooperstown, and Charles Hanks, of Pittsburgh. One brother and five sisters preceded her in death.
The body is at the Williams Funeral Home, Chapmanville, where friends may call any time today and Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted there on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Norman Bradney, of the Community Church, officiating. Interment will be in Chapmanville Cemetery.
Mrs. Edith Foster, 90, who spent much of her life as a resident of Chapmanville, died in the Meadville City Hospital at 2 p.m. Thursday following a several months' illness. In recent years she had been residing at 354 Autumn Drive, Meadville.
She was born near Sugar Lake on Sept. 15, 1877, a daughter of Warren and Sarah Brink Hanks and she spent her early life in that area. She was married to Sherman Foster and he died in 1953. For 63 years she lived in Chapmanville where she was a member of the Community Church and the Diamond Grange. She also belonged to the Senior Citizens Club of Meadville.
Mrs. Foster was a remarkable person with a keen memory and great ability for doing things. She was interested in herbs and their uses in cooking and for medicine. She made much of her own medicine using old and treasured recipes and until the last few years she went to the fields and woods and collected her own herbs.
For many years she was a regular participant in the curb market at Titusville, selling vegetables, fruits, herbs, soil from the woods, baked goods, milk, butter and eggs. She curtailed this practice when she was 82 and had to quit driving her car.
She liked to memorize poems and stories and until last year would entertain clubs and gatherings with these "pieces."
She is survived by a son, Hazen Foster, of Warren, Ohio; a step-daughter, Mrs. Hattie Proper, of Chapmanville; four grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Andrew Hanks, of Cooperstown, and Charles Hanks, of Pittsburgh. One brother and five sisters preceded her in death.
The body is at the Williams Funeral Home, Chapmanville, where friends may call any time today and Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted there on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Norman Bradney, of the Community Church, officiating. Interment will be in Chapmanville Cemetery.
Franklin News-Herald, December 22, 1967:
Mrs. Edith Foster, 90, who spent much of her life as a resident of Chapmanville, died in the Meadville City Hospital at 2 p.m. Thursday following a several months' illness. In recent years she had been residing at 354 Autumn Drive, Meadville.
She was born near Sugar Lake on Sept. 15, 1877, a daughter of Warren and Sarah Brink Hanks and she spent her early life in that area. She was married to Sherman Foster and he died in 1953. For 63 years she lived in Chapmanville where she was a member of the Community Church and the Diamond Grange. She also belonged to the Senior Citizens Club of Meadville.
Mrs. Foster was a remarkable person with a keen memory and great ability for doing things. She was interested in herbs and their uses in cooking and for medicine. She made much of her own medicine using old and treasured recipes and until the last few years she went to the fields and woods and collected her own herbs.
For many years she was a regular participant in the curb market at Titusville, selling vegetables, fruits, herbs, soil from the woods, baked goods, milk, butter and eggs. She curtailed this practice when she was 82 and had to quit driving her car.
She liked to memorize poems and stories and until last year would entertain clubs and gatherings with these "pieces."
She is survived by a son, Hazen Foster, of Warren, Ohio; a step-daughter, Mrs. Hattie Proper, of Chapmanville; four grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Andrew Hanks, of Cooperstown, and Charles Hanks, of Pittsburgh. One brother and five sisters preceded her in death.
The body is at the Williams Funeral Home, Chapmanville, where friends may call any time today and Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted there on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Norman Bradney, of the Community Church, officiating. Interment will be in Chapmanville Cemetery.
Mrs. Edith Foster, 90, who spent much of her life as a resident of Chapmanville, died in the Meadville City Hospital at 2 p.m. Thursday following a several months' illness. In recent years she had been residing at 354 Autumn Drive, Meadville.
She was born near Sugar Lake on Sept. 15, 1877, a daughter of Warren and Sarah Brink Hanks and she spent her early life in that area. She was married to Sherman Foster and he died in 1953. For 63 years she lived in Chapmanville where she was a member of the Community Church and the Diamond Grange. She also belonged to the Senior Citizens Club of Meadville.
Mrs. Foster was a remarkable person with a keen memory and great ability for doing things. She was interested in herbs and their uses in cooking and for medicine. She made much of her own medicine using old and treasured recipes and until the last few years she went to the fields and woods and collected her own herbs.
For many years she was a regular participant in the curb market at Titusville, selling vegetables, fruits, herbs, soil from the woods, baked goods, milk, butter and eggs. She curtailed this practice when she was 82 and had to quit driving her car.
She liked to memorize poems and stories and until last year would entertain clubs and gatherings with these "pieces."
She is survived by a son, Hazen Foster, of Warren, Ohio; a step-daughter, Mrs. Hattie Proper, of Chapmanville; four grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Andrew Hanks, of Cooperstown, and Charles Hanks, of Pittsburgh. One brother and five sisters preceded her in death.
The body is at the Williams Funeral Home, Chapmanville, where friends may call any time today and Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted there on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Norman Bradney, of the Community Church, officiating. Interment will be in Chapmanville Cemetery.
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