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Robert Foster posted a condolence
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Thank you Reese Funeral Home as I haven't a copy of the video and enjoyed so very much viewing it again
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Philip Carey Foster posted a condolence
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Continuation of remarks at Mrs. Price's funeral:
She told Al that she intended to be a patient that they would not want to keep and she certainly did her best to make that happen. As she hoped, she achieved her final objective, and returned to her home where she died at peace just as she wanted - with family and friends nearby.
But Thomas had written another poem earlier - one of celebration and hope - just as the bulletin you received today is entitled. When he published a collection of his works this one was selected to close the volume. In it he said what Betty Price and most of us here believe when he wrote the following lines:
"Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again… And death shall have no dominion."
I believe that - and so did my mother. In fact, the words "Alive in Christ" are already etched on her tombstone.
So we have come together to celebrate the life that Betty Price lived among us - but more importantly to celebrate our sure and certain hope that her life continues in our risen Lord.
AMEN
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Joyce Scharch posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
That was wonderful Phil. You wonderful memories will out wiegh the sorrow in time.
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Philip Carey Foster posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Remarks at the Funeral of Betty Price by one of her sons:
I would like to thank each of you on behalf of the family for coming this morning.
Betty Mae Carey was born in 1922 on a day that would 19 years later become infamous for the attack on Pearl Harbor. She grew up in a small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Her four sons are here today because of a little event that occurred in that town.
Her Methodist mother and Presbyterian father decided that it would be best for all the family to go to the same church. In order to break the parental tie, they decided to let the children pick. Off little Betty marched to the Presbyterian Church, which she liked well enough.
The following Sunday, however, she went to the Methodist church. She was standing outside at the top of the steps when the door flew open knocking her all the way down those steps. Bruised physically - and no doubt spiritually - she announced that she did not want to go to a place that threw little girls down the stairs, so she would become a Presbyterian. And so she would be for more than 89 years.
After graduating from high school, she enrolled in Salisbury University, later becoming the first in her family to graduate from college. She lettered in three sports, her favorite, though she was only 5'2" being basketball. She said it was because she jumped higher than the taller girls. Some years ago she was inducted into the college's Athletic Hall of Fame.
While at college she fell in love with a campus leader known as "Swiv" Newcomb, whom she married upon graduation. The marriage was brief as her husband joined the Army Air Corps upon the outbreak of the Second World War. His plane was shot down and he did not survive.
During the war, she began her career as an elementary school teacher, first in a school near Washington and later at home where she was courted by the Episcopal priest as well as her own pastor, among others. In 1946, she married our father, the Reverend Philip K. Foster. She played the parts of mother and school teacher and minister's wife as the family moved first to New Jersey, and then to Bradenton, Florida where a new church structure was completed for the Westminster church there.
After that they moved to Easton, Maryland where a new church was founded, and finally to Newark, Delaware. Interestingly all four sons were born in different cities. Of course, it is true that John and Rob were both born in Easton - only one Easton was in Pennsylvania while the other was in Maryland.
She was highly regarded as a teacher, having been selected as the "Teacher of the Year" for both her school and her school district while in Delaware.
Upon retirement the couple moved to St. Petersburg where she worked as a part-time teacher while her husband worked as a part-time pastor until his death. Some years thereafter she met and married Bob Price, a widower from Maryland. The marriage was ended by his death just a few years later.
Then she had the good fortune of moving into a condo building where she would eventually meet Albert Leonard. Their relationship has grown over the years and Al has become an important part of our family. His faithfulness to her never wavered as her health began to decline some months ago.
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Now I don't think that my mother ever read Dylan Thomas. She would never have approved us his hard drinking and hard living - factors, no doubt in his early demise. Yet lines from two of his poems have come to my mind over the last few months as her health began to decline. The one was written when the poet's father was dying. Thomas was encouraging his father to hang on and fight for his life when he wrote:
"Do not go gentle into that good night - Old age should burn and rave at close of day - Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Now anyone at the nursing home can tell you that Betty Price did not go gentle into that good night - or more particularly that nursing home. She told Al that she intended to be a patient that they
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Reese Funeral Home posted a condolence
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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