Catching Up With

Roy Foster, Jr.

At my request, Roy Foster, Jr., Class of 1945,  provided this information about his life after Monongah High:

Roy Foster Jr .

Born November 27, 1928 in Fairmont to Roy Foster and Anna Dean Foster. 

Graduate of East Monongah Grade school. 

Had 1 sister Ida Foster Shaver who was an earlier grad of Monongah High.

Graduated Monongah High in 1945. 

Married Dolores Headley. 

One son James.  

Grandson Benjamin.

Granddaughter Celeste. 

After graduating I went to Baltimore in 1945 and got job at Glen L. Martin Aircraft 

which lasted until World War II ended. 

Came back to Fairmont and got job on the B&O Railroad, still only 16 years old. My work 

with them was always in the clerical field. 

Married Doris Headley from Farmington. She died in 2002. 

One son Jim, grandson Ben, granddaughter Celeste. 

Have a special friend, Doris Yost. 

Read your Monongah news regularly. You do a great job. 

Roy Foster Jr.

Dolores Headley Foster, Roy’s late wife, was a 1948 Farmington High graduate. Roy lives in Fairmont. His birthday is Nov. 27.

Ida Foster Shaver, Class of 1943, was Roy’s sister.

Doris McCoy Yost is a 1952 Barrackville High graduate.

Other Fosters at Monongah High:

Rebecca Thompson Foster, Class of 1972.

Jim Foster, sales representative at Swanson Industries, is a Monongah High grad who lives in Fairmont with wife Linda Foster. Jim grew up in Monongah.

Long-ago Monongah High bus driver Dave Shaver, who passed away, was married to June Snodgrass Shaver.

 

Since the number of hits on this Monongah High Alumni blog double when I do a Catching Up With article, I know that former Lions are interested in what has happened to their former classmates.

 

If I haven’t posted a blog article catching up with YOUR life since Monongah High, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com with such details as the name of your spouse, including maiden name and whether he/she was a Monongah High grad (if not, which high school?), names and current hometowns of your children, number of grandchildren, details of your career after MHS and current hometown and where you’ve traveled. And I’d love photos in jpeg format of you and your family. Email them to jo4wvu@neo.rr.com

 

Thank you. Your former classmates will be interested in reading about you. Every life is a story worth telling.