Richard Foster

Still trying to make contact with Kathryn or Arthur. Linda [email protected] m

Dear Kat and Arthur, my husband Rich and I were really close to your Dad for years in Chicago and DC. He is my daughter Monica’s God Father. All our family came to Wisconsin for his wedding to your Mom and we visited once more but I’m not sure Arthur was born then. We sort of drifted apart then, chatting on the phone every now and then. “Foster” and I had the same piano teacher here n the DC area and it was Bonnie trying to contact him a month ago who learned he had died and called me. ...

He was a very good man. I respected him immensely.

Richard was a stellar journalist admired by his peers. I am greatly saddened by his death.

Richard was one of a kind. I never met anyone like him. We all try to pigeonhole people, but you couldn’t pigeonhole Richard. He devoured a multi-volume biography on Dostoyevsky and then wanted to understand Einstein’s theory on relativity. Who does that? Just Richard.
I loved having coffee with Richard because I never knew beforehand which way the conversation would go. Utterly unpredictable and utterly without pretense.
I could go on about his devotion to family, his writing and...

Richard was a friend for the past 5+ years. He was a sweet, smiling gentleman. He loved conversing about anything from baseball to history to current events to etc. He had an informed wry and witty sense of humor, often accentuated with a phrase from literature, law or Latin. He would look at us with a sly, knowing grin, acknowledging that you got his reference. He was an incredibly thoughtful and caring man. His smile, his gentleness and the energy he brought to gatherings will be missed!

I am so sorry you have lost Richard. He was a regular lunch companion during our time in the National Press Building, here in DC. We were like two birds on a wire, chirping about this-and-that and he always finished our meal with "a cuppa joe, please." I'm sorry we lost touch after he left for Milwaukee.