Obituary:
Monday, September 29, 1975
Rev. Hope Foster Dies; Former PoncanThe Rev. Hope Foster, a former resident of Ponca City, died Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital, Wichita. He was 68.
Minister of the Free Will Baptist Church in Wichita since 1965, when he moved from Ponca City, the Rev. Mr. Foster was born Feb. 4, 1907 in Lawton.
Funeral service will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Cochran Mortuary, Wichita, with burial at 3 p.m. in the Odd Fellows Cemetery here.
Surviving are his wife, Elsie, of the home in Wichita; 1 son, Warren Foster of Fort Worth, Tex.; 1 daughter, Mrs. Donald White of Oklahoma City; 1 brother, Walter Foster of Ponca City, and 2 sisters, Mrs. Anna Roland of Ponca City and Mrs. Juanita Brickel of Strathmore, Calif.
Jess' mother died when he was around ten years old. His father, Joe Justice, drowned in the late 40's.