ROY FOSTER PASSES AWAY

 

Roy Foster, Jr., Class of 1945, passed away Thursday, January 27.

The son of Roy Foster, Sr. and Anna Dean Foster graduated from East Monongah Elementary.

His sister, Ida Foster Shaver, Class of 1943, predeceased him. 

Jim Roy Foster, Class of 1971, is Roy’s son. Jim married to Linda Phillips Foster, Class of 1977, in 2014  at Valley Falls State Park. Linda and her sisters, Brenda Phillips Waugh, Class of 1978, and Jeanie Phillips Nibert, Class of 1975, are all former Monongah High prom queens.

Roy was on the 1944 Monongah High football team Coach by George Ross that was nicknamed the “Scoreless Wonders” because it never scored a point or won a game in the season shorted to 5 games because of World War II.

 

After graduation from Monongah High, Roy went to Baltimore in 1945 and got job at Glen L. Martin Aircraft which lasted until World War II ended. 

 Roy returned to Fairmont and got job as a clerk for the B&O Railroad, still only 16 years old. Later, Roy worked for Swanson Industries. 

 

Roy married Farmington High grad Doris Headley. She passed away in 2002.

Roy’s obituary:

 

 

 

 

Roy Foster, Jr. November 27, 1928 - January 27, 2021

Preceded in death by wife of 45 years, Deloris Headley Foster and is survived by his loving companion Doris Yost, Heritage Point, Morgantown, WV; Son James R. Foster (Linda), Rock Lake, Fairmont. and two Grandchildren; Celeste N. Weber (Michael), Connecticut and Benjamin J. Foster, Monongah, WV, two Great-Granddaugthers Isabella and Emily Weber, Connecticut, brother-in-law Gene (Marie) Headley of Florida and many nieces and nephews.

Preceeded in death by one sister, Ida Foster Shaver, Monongah.

Graduated from Monongah High School where he was a member of "The Scoreless Wonders" football team of 1945. Roy laughed as he reminisced the high school team story.

Served in the US Army from 1951-1953 spending much of that time in Germany.
Retired from B & O Railroad in 1988. Methodist by faith, loved fishing, hunting, exercise, computers and dancing. Member of the Fairmont Eagles, Moose and VFW.

He donated his remains to the Human Gift Registry.
A celebration of Life Ceremony is being planned.