Mrs Florence Foster
This estimable lady passed peacefully away at her home near
Waelder Monday morning, June 9, 1902 at 7 o'clock. She was the
wife of Mr. Fenso Foster, one of the Waelder communities best
citizens, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. N. F. Miller. Her brothers
are Messrs. Ross, Lee, Austin and Cliff Miller and her sisters are Mrs.
A.F. Gunn of Thompsonville and Mrs. McCraw of Dallas. She leaves
a husband and three or four small children, a large number of relatives
and a large number of friends to mourn her untimely death. Mrs.
Foster was an amiable lady, unostentatious, and true to all the gifts of
womanhood. She was a true neighbor in all the high offices that
belong to the word, neighbor. She was a loving daughter and sister.
She loved her parents and brothers and sisters. She was a consistent
member of the church, a tender, loving, solicitous mother, and a most
dutiful and affectionate wife. Mrs. Foster was a long and patient
sufferer. She was afflicted with some sort of slow wasting disease,
possibly consumption. Her physicians and husband tried every remedy
and expedient to arrest the disease, but all to no avail. Her health had
been giving way for two or more years, but for only the past eight or
ten months had her friends become very apprehensive of serious
results, while for the last two or three weeks the worst was expected
at any moment, so it seemed very fitting that such a sunny spirit as
hers, should, just as the night of nature was giving place to the
brightness and the glories of day, take its flight from a world of
suffering and sorrow into light of eternal day. Bereaved ones, weep
not as those who have not hope. We will cherish her memory, we will
regard the highest choice of her life, we will sympathize with the deep
grief of her husband, we will hold the trembling hand of her
motherless children, and, through divine mercy, we will see her again.
her friend and pastor, J.W. SIMS.