1921 - 2017
1921 - 2017
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Brooke Garduño
April 14, 2017
I love how Poppie would come to my basketball games. He actually made most of my games in high school. He wouldn't stay after the game to say hi or show off that he was there, he just wanted to see me play. And I love him for that. You will never meet a man more involved in the lives of his grandchildren. He genuinely loved every part of being a grandfather. He will be greatly missed, but never forgotten. He lives on in all who knew him.
Donna Vaught
April 13, 2017
Sending sincere condolences to the Foster family. Thoughts and prayers from Arkansas, Kim. Donna Vaught
Margaret O'Neill
April 12, 2017
Your dad was a true hero to our family when I was growing up. I know he will be missed by his family.
Kim Arthur
April 11, 2017
I have many great memories of my Daddy. My favorite one was when I was about 2 1/2 years old, my Mom would drive the ski boat with Dale amd Kay inside amd my Dad and I would get in the water. He would wear a life belt- not allowed these days- and I would wear a life jacket. I would sit on the belt facing him with my arms wrapped around his neck, my Dad on two water skiis. My Mom would pull us out of the water with the boat and we would ski together! I am sure today someone would shoot a video of it and turn it in to the authorities!! Looking back, it seems like it was so dangerous. My Dad loved skiing and teaching us to ski. We had so many fun memories at the lake with our family and other families, especially the Carlton's. Around 5 1/2 years old he taught me to ski on 2 skiis by myself. He shortened two skiis and tied the toes together with a short piece of a ski rope so I could keep the toes together to make it easier for me to learn. He gave all of himself to his family and his friends. I miss him so much. All these wonderful memories have come flooding to my mind this week. We need to write a book of the Foster family memories! It would be a very long book!
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Kay Broadie
April 10, 2017
MY FATHER'S HANDS
By Kay Lynn Foster Broadie
My earliest remembrance was when I was about 5-6 years, old sitting on his left hand side in church. Kids went to big church with their parents when I grew up. I remember him covering his hand over mine. I loved to look at his thumbnail and feel the ridges. He always had bumps and bruises on his hands. He had working and helping hands, never hands that hurt others. Seeing his bruised and bunged up hands at 95 years old, reminded me of all the things he did with those hands to help others during his life. He loved building things with his hands and had every tool imaginable. His workshop was very important to him and I remember each house he lived in had a workshop area: not a messy workshop, but one organized with countless coffee cans, glass jars, etc. holding lots of one specific item. He was known by neighbors in every different house he lived in as someone capable of fixing things and willing to help others. He never begrudged being known for that. He was a great neighbor to all. He only used those hands for helping. Growing up, he would use his hands to work at the church to fix the air conditioner, heater, or plumbing at any time, day or night. He always mowed and kept our yards and landscaping perfect with his hands. The 3 kids never had to help out because he loved doing it himself. At Christmas, we had a perfectly decorated house, with lights on all the edges of the roof that he had painstakingly placed there with his hands beginning the day after Thanksgiving. He worked on all our cars and changed his own oil forever, with his working hands. I tell you his hands had lots of energy. He kept our home in tip-top shape. He also had a green thumb and loved planting flowers -especially zinnias. He could never understand why I would not drive to Carrollton from Fort Worth and buy zinnias like the ones he got from a local nursery. They were beautiful each year in the summer. As you can see, I have great respect for our dad by strictly observing his life through his hands. We take things for granted as just part of daily living. But thinking back about 95 years of his hands and all they did to help others is really amazing. I admire him for the example he set for his kids to live by and I appreciate and love him so much. We all do. I never actually caught on to the parallel parking or changing a tire on my car that he taught me, of course, again with his hands! My Father's hands were always used to love, help, work, and comfort others. Thanks to you Dad, JC, Poppie - we love you forever!
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