Guy Clayton Foster

b. 3 September 1899, d. 23 August 1962
  • Guy Clayton Foster was born on 3 September 1899 in Madison, Madison County, Nebraska.
  • Zach Ralph Foster and Gertrude Mabel Mead appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Garfield, Brown County, Nebraska. Other members of the household included Guy Clayton Foster. Also in the household was son Earnest G. (age 3).
  • Zach Ralph Foster and Gertrude Mabel Mead appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Garfield, Keya Paha County, Nebraska. Other members of the household included Guy Clayton Foster. Also in the household were children Glen (age 13), Leon (6), Gladys (8) and Alta (4).
  • He married Ruth Gerda Barrett, daughter of Charles Eugene Barrett and Edna Blanche Millard, circa 1916.
  • Guy Clayton Foster registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Keya Paha County, Nebraska, while living with his wife Ruth in Meadville, and self-employed there farming.
  • Guy Clayton Foster and Ruth Gerda Barrett appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Garfield, Nebraska. Also in the household were daughters Grazia (age 2 years 9 months2) and Helen (11 months).
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1920 census.
  • Guy Clayton Foster and Ruth Gerda Barrett appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Johnstown, Brown County, Nebraska. Other members of the household included Kenneth Clayton Foster. Also in the household were daughters Grazia R. (age 12), Helen B. (11), Phyllis G. (7) and Paulina L (5), and Ruth's mother's youngest brother Ferris R. Millard.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1930 census.
  • Guy Clayton Foster died on 23 August 1962 at age 62 in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
  • Ruth Gerda Barrett became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Ainsworth Cemetery, Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska.
  • The following appeared on 2 September 1962 in The Pampa Daily News: (Panhandle) Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Poston have returned from Ainsworth, Neb., where they attended funeral services for her father, Guy Clayton Foster, 62, who died Aug. 23, in a Tulsa, Okla., hospital following a long illness. The Postons had been in Tulsa several days, prior to his death.
         Funeral services were in the Wisda Chapel, with burial in the Ainsworth Cemetery.
         Mr. Foster was born Sept. 3, 1889, in Madison, Neb., and was married in 1917 to Miss Ruth Millard in Long Pine, Neb. She is among the survivors. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
         In 1937 he moved to Borger, where he was employed by the Phillips Petroleum Company until 1947. He later lived in Panhandle, where he operated a chicken and produce farm. He had lived on a farm near Grove, Okla., for the past four years.
         Survivors are a son, Kenneth Foster, Scotts Bluff, Neb; four daughter, Mrs. Ray Kime, Ainsworth; Mrs. Justus Schenk, Johnstown, Neb; Mrs. Poston, Panhandle; and Mrs. Ed Caczmarek, Omaha, Neb; 18 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
  • Last Edited: 17 Nov 2016

Family: Ruth Gerda Barrett b. 15 September 1899, d. 8 January 1975