Services for Moine Maxine Foster, 93, Lawrence, will be at 1:00 pm Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Visitation with family will be at 12:00 pm. Burial will be in Eudora City Cemetery.
Maxine Foster died November 5, 2023, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital surrounded by her family.
She was born September 5, 1930, in Miami, Oklahoma, the daughter of Frank W. Philips and Jessie Opal Keller Phillips. She graduated from Golden City High School in Missouri in 1948, Valedictorian of her class.
She married Virgil Ross Foster on Oct. 6, 1948, at the Ministers home in Miami, Oklahoma. They were married for 57 years until his death in 2006.
They moved to DeSoto, Kansas in 1949, then moved to Sunflower Village in 1951. They then moved to Eudora in 1957. She resided there until 2015 when she moved in with her daughter Glenda.
She was a member of the Eudora Assembly of God Church until 2010 when she became a member of Lawrence Calvary Temple.
She is survived by a daughter Caroline (Murl Hicks), Hollister, MO; a son Philip Foster, Kimberling City, MO; a daughter Glenda Caldwell (Larry Caldwell), Lawrence, KS; a son Larry Foster, Lawrence, KS. Two sisters Fern Hart, Commerce, Oklahoma, Gladys Dorsey (Glenn), Beebe, Arkansas, a brother Norman Phillips, Washburn MO, and 12 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 7 great-great grandchildren plus other extended family.
A daughter Sonia Marie Foster died earlier in 1988.
The family suggest memorials to the Cystic Fibrosis sent in care of the funeral home.
Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.
