FOSTER- Maurice Franklin Foster was born March 5, 1931 in a farm house at Little Gem, Alberta, 18 miles south of Consort. Unfortunately his twin brother, Marian did not survive and was buried in Consort. The following winter the chimney caught fire and burned the house down taking his dad’s piano with it, forcing them to move. Mr. Foster was able to find a place east of Coronation, the old Anderson farm, 1 1/2 miles north and 1/2 mile east of Goulet Trucking. With 40 cattle and 15 to 20 head of work horses to pull the Nickels and Shepard combine (which cost about $600 new and was lost during the 30’s) and with no feed, they were not very well received. However, Mr. Foster found an old wheat straw stack and they managed to get along until February 8 when a Chinook came along causing the snow to melt and run away into the coulee north of the farm, thereby allowing the cattle to graze. A year or two later they moved to the old Hugh Tallor farm, half a mile southeast of the Adolf Derring farm. That is where Maurice remembered his mother standing in front of the kitchen window making carrot pie. In 1936 they moved to the Wilson farm. The well had bad water and after Maurice’s mom ran out of drinking water and drank some of the bad well water, she passed away in Coronation. The family continued to live there until 1955 when only Maurice and his dad remained. Maurice was married to Beverley Carnahan in 1960 and they moved to Hobbema to farm on the reserve. He helped build the Toronto Dominion Bank in 1963. In 1966 after Maurice’s dad remarried, Maurice bought the farm from him and continued farming there until selling it in 1973. Maurice and Bev moved to Coronation in 1975 where he bought a trailer and made it into a homeowner’s house. Maurice drove school bus from 1973 to 1984. After moving to Coronation, Maurice worked at a gas station on Highway 12. He drove gravel truck and bobcat, worked at the Coronation Hospital and moved snow for the town with the bobcat. He was a handyman for a few years as well as working at the campground for a few years. Maurice was predeceased by his twin brother Marian in 1931; mother Ruth in 1936; son Maurice Franklin Foster Jr. in 1961; brother Raymond in 1971; step-mother Mabel in 1984; father Franklin Raymond in 1992; and sister Shirley Major in 1992. Maurice is survived by his family: loving wife of 46 years, Beverley; sons Murray and Lewis; brother Charlie (Evelyn); sisters Hazel (Harold) Rumohr and Lillian Stitchman; numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives. For all the years Maurice was associated with the Jehovah’s organization he believed in the resurrection, hope for mankind and everlasting life which the bible talks about repeatedly, and which he preached about as well. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Monday, August 28, 2006, in the Coronation Community Centre, Coronation, Alberta with John Symons officiating. Following the service, family and friends gathered together for a time of sharing and light refreshments prepared and served by the Federal Friendship Club. A family interment service will take place at the Coronation Cemetery at a later time. Memorial donations may be made to the Coronation Health Care Complex - Home Away From Home Room or the Coronation Health Care Foundation. Parkview Funeral Chapels & Crematorium, 578-3777, entrusted with the care and arrangements.Back to Obituary page