FOSTER, Leon

Leon Foster Leon Foster, 78 a retired Methodist Minister of Sidney, died Wednesday evening at Memorial Hospital in Sidney. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in the United Methodist Church in Sidney with Rev. Clarence Campbell, Rev. Dwight Kemling and Rev. Stanley Rider officiating. Burial will be in the Potter Cemetery. Memorials have been established to the Sidney United Methodist Church or to the Potter Methodist Church. Holechek Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Leon Arnold Foster was born in a sod house on April 14, 1904 at Meadville, the son of Zack and Gertrude Mead Foster. He attended the Asbury School in Willmore, Ky.; Wayne Teachers College in Wayne, and Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He began his ministry in 1930 in the rural Kowanda Church between Oshkosh and Chappell, and took his retirement from the Potter Methodist Church in 1971. On July 12, 1935 he was united in marriage to Alice Crooks at Broomfield, CO. During the 41 years of his ministry he served two years in Colorado, eight years in Montana, and 31 years in Nebraska. He was instrumental in building one parsonage, buying two parsonages and undertaking eight remodeling projects in the churches he served. He directed many youth camps and was most at home with the rural churches. He was an active member of the Sidney Lions Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and bowling. Survivors include his wife Alice of Sidney; two daughters, Doris (Mrs. Jorge Bernardini) of New York City N.Y., and Nila (Mrs. Elmer Brummund) of Broomfield; one son, Eldridge of Alexandria, Virginia; one sister Alta Osborne of Nyack, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.