Lucille Foreman Obituary
TORRINGTON, Wyo. - Lucille C. Foreman, 76, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007, at the Torrington Community Hospital.
Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 7, at the United Methodist Church in Torrington with Pastor Lonnie Crow officiating. Cremation has taken place and burial was held Nov. 30, at Fort McPhearson Cemetery near Maxwell, Neb. with Reverend Ora Dailey officiating.
Lucille was born Dec. 10, 1930, in Torrington the daughter of Alden and Esther (McCullough) Spencer. She grew up and at-tended school in Torrington; graduating Torrington High School in 1948. She went on to graduate from the University of Wyoming at the Torrington Center in 1950 with an AA Degree. In 1956 she graduated from Colorado State University at Greeley with a BA Degree. While getting her college education, Lucille taught school off and on both at Torrington and at a country school near Douglas, Wyo. On June 14, 1958 she married LeLand Foreman in Torrington.
The couple then lived in various areas from Yellowstone, Wyo. to Fort Collins, Colo. They returned to the Yellowstone Park area before moving to Bremerton, Wash. for a few years. It was then that they moved to Nebraska for a very short time before going to Glacier National Park where they lived from 1966 until her husband retired in 1987. The couple then settled in Columbia Falls, Mont. until LeLand's death in 1994. Lucille moved to Torrington, Wyoming in 1999 to live with her sister, Helen.
She was a member of the National America of Retired Federal Employees and of the Retired Teachers Association. Lucille was also a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union where she served as Public Relations Director. She attended the Methodist Church where she sang in the choir and in the Cantatas. She was a member of the Circle One of the United Methodist Women; member of the Jolly Juniors Extension Club; Friends of Music, and the Wyoming AARP. Lucille served on the Board of Directors at the Torrington Senior Friendship Center and also the Adult Day Care of Goshen County.
Lucille enjoyed reading and making quilts and other crafts. She loved helping out "Mother Nature" with recycling and gardening. She had a love of all animals and birds.
Her sister, Helen Laughlin of Torrington, survives her.
Published by The Star-Herald from Dec. 4 to Dec. 6, 2007.