Irene “Dolly” Elizabeth Foster, 96
Sauk Rapids
Sept. 9, 1919 – Sept 11, 2015
Irene “Dolly” Elizabeth Foster, 96, of Sauk Rapids, died Sept. 11, 2015 in Good Shepherd Lutheran Home, Sauk Rapids.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21 at Messiah Lutheran Church, Sartell. Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at Benson Funeral Home, St. Cloud and one hour prior to the service at the church on Monday. Burial will be in Valley View Cemetery, Browns Valley, Minn.
Irene was born Sept. 9, 1919 in Sisseton, S.D. to Joseph and Ina (Ruckdaschel) Roth. She worked in the Roberts County Extension Service after high school, where she met Ted Foster. They married on Sept. 7, 1941 in Sisseton. Shortly thereafter they moved to a farm near Browns Valley, which was home for 52 years until she moved to Sartell in 1993. Foster was a 4-H leader for several years in Browns Valley, attended Zion Lutheran Church and was a member of the local chapter of the Jolly Homemakers Club and later Messiah Lutheran Church.
Foster loved to read and gave all her children a love for reading, music, gardening and flowers. She had an avid green thumb and everything she planted flourished. She loved people and was very socially active, singing in choirs, weddings and funerals.
Survivors include the following: daughter, Pat (Art) Braun of St. Cloud; sons, Gary (Anne) Foster of Bozeman, Mont.; Terry (Mary Jane) Foster of Waverly, S.D.; 12 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ted in 1974; three daughters, Judy Pederson, Pam Westbrock and Carol Bruns; one grandson, Luke Foster; one great-granddaughter, Heather Kolb; and three brothers.