Marie Foster

Marie Faye Babcock Foster, age 89, died peacefully late Friday evening, June 11, 2010, at Parks Retirement Village Care Center. Marie was born January 30, 1921, in LaJunta, CO, to Margaret Catherine Trammell and Carl Lowell Babcock as the second of their four children. She traveled from Arkansas to marry Eddie Dean Foster on January 4, 1942, in Yuma, Arizona. While living in Hollywood, California, she attended Los Angeles City College, but after the birth of her first child, Donald, she chose to be a homemaker as well as a wife, mother, and later a grandmother and greatgrandmother.

Marie traveled coast to coast with her first child as her husband, Eddie, was moved from place to place in the navy during World War II. Following the war she lived in San Louis Obispo, California Gentry and Huntsville, Arkansas Bartlesville, Oklahoma and moved to Odessa with her family 51 years ago in May, 1959. She was a Christian and member of Sherwood Church of Christ for 51 years where she was a Bible class teacher and volunteer for whatever needed to be done. She was well known as the family genealogist for the Trammell, Babcock and Foster families. Marie has always had a green thumb. While living in Odessa she learned to grow African Violets, having as many as 450 plants within her home and greenhouse. She was a member of the West Texas African Violet Society and won numerous first place ribbons for her African Violets at shows.

She also loved to garden, canfreeze the produce, tend to flower beds of iris, roses and amaryllis, and she was an avid quilter. Her most famous quilt was made during the U.S. Bicentennial using squares from each of the 50 states prepared by family and friends who lived in those states. She always made time to begin her day by reading her Bible and writing in her numerous yearly journals.

Marie is survived by her husband of 68 years years, Eddie Dean Foster, of Odessa her three children, Donald Ray Foster of Odessa Ann Foster Nichols of Odessa, and husband, Penney F. Nichols and Jerry Dean Foster of Bartlesville, OK and wife, Danice. In addition, she is survived by seven grandchildren: Andria Foster Holloway, Fayetteville, TX and husband, Greg Stanton Foster, Sherman, and wife, Lishelle Edette Marie Nichols, Pasadena, CA Deana Nichols, Bloomington, IN Danielle Dee Dee Powers, Bartlesville, OK, and husband, Mike Angela Rader, Bartlesville, OK, and husband, Jay and Regina Castellanos, Hollywood, FL seven greatgrandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Marie was preceded in death by her mother and father, Margaret Catherine Trammell and Carl Lowell Babcock, and her brother and two sisters, Carl Lloyd Babcock, Ida Ellen Collier and Doris Mae Hane.

Visitation for family and friends will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, 2010, at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Memorial services will be held at Sherwood Church of Christ, 2:00 p.m., Thursday, June 17, 2010, with Penney F. Nichols and Mark Wilson officiating, with interment to follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Arrangements are entrusted to Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to Odessa Christian School, American Cancer society, and Home Hospice of Odessa.

Visitation

Sunset Memorial Funeral Home
6801 E. Business 20
Odessa, TX  79762
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
46 PM

Service

Memorial Service

Sherwood Church of Christ
4900 N. Dixie
Odessa, TX  79761
Thursday, June 17, 2010
2:00 PM

Cemetery

Sunset Memorial Gardens
6801 E. Business 20
Odessa, TX  79762

Memorial Contributions

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Odessa, TX  79761


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Odessa, TX  79761


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Odessa, TX  79761