While trying to locate Debbie to send her information about our reunion, I learned the sad news of her passing. She was, indeed, an immensely kind person.
Anchorage Daily News (AK) - June 6, 1997
Longtime Alaska resident Deborah Ann Foster, 46, died May 16, 1997, at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Ms. Foster was born March 10, 1951, in Lenexa, Kan. She attended Southwest High School in Kansas City, Mo., and Antioch College in Columbia, Md. Ms. Foster then came to Alaska to work for Campfire Girls as a summer camp counselor in Kwethluk. She also found work as an apprentice to a string instrument repairman and developed her skills as a craftsman. She played the viola in the Anchorage Symphony during the mid-1970s. In 1974, she worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a surveyors' aide and for the Federal Aviation Administration from 1975 to 1992. She held many positions including electronics technician, instructor, proficiency development specialist and acting program support supervisor. She one of the first women hired in Alaska as an electronics technician to repair navigational aides, her family said. Ms. Foster received many awards. As an instructor, along with two colleagues, she was instrumental in training many of the Alaska FAA technical workers responsible for maintaining the Navigational Assistance System for the state. She went on to management work, mapping out training for all the technicians, budgeting and logistics. Ms. Foster was a founding and active member of the Alaska Urantia Society, a group devoted to brotherhood of man. She researched and published articles on spiritual theories and principles as well as the Urantia Book. Her family said: ''She was extraordinarily well read in a vast number of subjects ranging from physics to the arts. Her friends and family cherish the years spent with her and appreciate her pathway to a higher good. She was loyal, loving and immensely kind.'' Ms. Foster is survived by her mother, Elizabeth; brother, Kent; sister, Ann Allen; brother-in-law, Scott Allen, all of Kansas City; sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Don Emerson of Houston; two nieces, Shelby and Haley Allen, and two ''godchildren,'' Logan and Cloe Mead-Wright of Anchorage. She was preceded in death by her father, Carl Foster. Her ashes will be shared by a family plot in Kansas City and the outdoors of Alaska. Donations in her name may be made to the Alaska Children's Trust Fund, P.O. Box 112100, Juneau 99811; or Big Brothers/Big Sisters, 1057 W. Fireweed Lane, Anchorage 99503. Anchorage Daily News (AK) Date: June 6, 1997
Elizabeth Brown (Blume)
While trying to locate Debbie to send her information about our reunion, I learned the sad news of her passing. She was, indeed, an immensely kind person.Anchorage Daily News (AK) - June 6, 1997
Longtime Alaska resident Deborah Ann Foster, 46, died May 16, 1997, at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
Ms. Foster was born March 10, 1951, in Lenexa, Kan. She attended Southwest High School in Kansas City, Mo., and Antioch College in Columbia, Md.
Ms. Foster then came to Alaska to work for Campfire Girls as a summer camp counselor in Kwethluk. She also found work as an apprentice to a string instrument repairman and developed her skills as a craftsman. She played the viola in the Anchorage Symphony during the mid-1970s.
In 1974, she worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a surveyors' aide and for the Federal Aviation Administration from 1975 to 1992. She held many positions including electronics technician, instructor, proficiency development specialist and acting program support supervisor. She one of the first women hired in Alaska as an electronics technician to repair navigational aides, her family said.
Ms. Foster received many awards. As an instructor, along with two colleagues, she was instrumental in training many of the Alaska FAA technical workers responsible for maintaining the Navigational Assistance System for the state. She went on to management work, mapping out training for all the technicians, budgeting and logistics.
Ms. Foster was a founding and active member of the Alaska Urantia Society, a group devoted to brotherhood of man. She researched and published articles on spiritual theories and principles as well as the Urantia Book.
Her family said: ''She was extraordinarily well read in a vast number of subjects ranging from physics to the arts. Her friends and family cherish the years spent with her and appreciate her pathway to a higher good. She was loyal, loving and immensely kind.''
Ms. Foster is survived by her mother, Elizabeth; brother, Kent; sister, Ann Allen; brother-in-law, Scott Allen, all of Kansas City; sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Don Emerson of Houston; two nieces, Shelby and Haley Allen, and two ''godchildren,'' Logan and Cloe Mead-Wright of Anchorage. She was preceded in death by her father, Carl Foster.
Her ashes will be shared by a family plot in Kansas City and the outdoors of Alaska.
Donations in her name may be made to the Alaska Children's Trust Fund, P.O. Box 112100, Juneau 99811; or Big Brothers/Big Sisters, 1057 W. Fireweed Lane, Anchorage 99503.
Anchorage Daily News (AK)
Date: June 6, 1997