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Show John M. Foster Suffers Stroke, Dies on Monday ,t I i . v ".' -m .-V' - : ( JOHN M. FOSTER ft John Moody Poster, 67, well known Cedar City attorney, former City and county officer, and active political worker, died Monday ev ening of a heart ailment following a stroke suffered about ten days earlier. He had been in a critical condition since suffering the stroke and was given very little hope of recovery at any time. Mr. Foster was born in S't. George on November 5, 1880, a son of Solon and Sarah Margaret Moody Foster. He spent his boyhood In St. George, attended toe Branch Normal school In Cedar City, and was a member of the second graduating class of the BNS. He graduated from Stanford university uni-versity In 1905, after which he taught at Ricks Academy at Rex-burg, Rex-burg, Idaho, for a year. He came to Cedar City in 1907 and taught In the Branch Normal school for ttiree years, during which time he was In charge of athletics and coached a track team that won the state championship In 1910. He was granted a degree In law from the University of Chicago in 1911, and after living in Idaho for several years he began his law practice prac-tice in Cedar City in 1918 and has practiced here since. Mr. Foster was an active civic and political worked, and served as attorney for Cedar City and Iron county. At the time of his death he was Juvenile probation officer for Washington and Iron counties. He had promoted mining and farming development In the area, and at the (Conllnied on Back Page) John M. Foster Continued From Front Page) time of his death he was secretary of the Coal Creek Irrigation company, com-pany, a position he held for 20 years. On June 29, 1906, he married Hannah Davis of Rexburg, Idaho, who survives him. He is also survived sur-vived by a daughter Mrs. Edgar Snow, Madison, Conn.; three sons, Frederick C. Foster, with the State Department in Tokyo; David Monroe Mon-roe Foster, Cedar City, and John M. Foster, Jr., Los Angeles; five brothers bro-thers and sisters Solon J. Foster and-Mrs. Syl Engleman Inglewood, California; Mrs. Harold Anderson, Salt Lake City; Joseph D. and George Foster, Cedar City, a half brother, Cllve H. Clift, Salt Lake pity and three grandchildren. Funeral services are being conducted con-ducted In the First ward chapel this afternoon. |