Kirk K. Foster
Kirk K. Foster, 89, a lifelong resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, died Wednesday, December 13, 2006, in Hillside Manor. He was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1917, the son of Frank R. Foster and Bessie Kemp Foster.
Kirk graduated from Uniontown Senior High School, Class of 1935, and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Mr. Foster was a member of Saint Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Uniontown, where he served on the Church Council for 28 years and taught the Men’s Bible Class for 45 years.
Mr. Foster was a member of the Uniontown Rotary Club, B.P.O.E. 370, the General George C. Marshall AMVETS Post 103, Hopwood, Pa., and the Isaac Walton League where he served as secretary for seven years.
He was a five-year member of the Civil DIR Patrol, and a member of the Waynesburg (Pa.) Flying Club and The Aero Club in Pittsburgh (Pa.) where he served on the Board of Governors for eight years.
Mr. Foster was a Founding Member of the National Air and Space Museum in the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. a Founding Member of the American Museum in Britain, a Charter Member of the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, and a Founding Member of the National Air and Space Society.
He served for eight years as a Board Member of The State Theatre Center for the Arts, the FAYPAC organization, the Mon-Valley Expressway Association, the Board of Directors of the Fayette County Historical Society, the Fayette Fraternal Association, the Circus Historical Society of America, the Circus Fans of America and the Circus Model Builders Association of America.
For many years he traveled Southwestern Pennsylvania presenting audio-visual slide programs of the West Penn Trolley System, The Uniontown Speedway, local coal mines, Fayette County, the City of Uniontown, Pa., as well as aeronautical and circus subjects.
He entered the printing business in 1931, serving with the Little Printing Company, Uniontown, Pa., for 22 years and retired in 1996.
Mr. Foster also served as District Manager for the Baltimore Business Forms for over 20 years, was District Manager for Ennis Business Forms of Texas until 1981 and then Foster Business Forms, Uniontown, Pa., until 1996.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Ursula McIntyre Foster, in 1960 and his second wife, Virginia Noble Foster, in 1998.
Mr. Foster is survived by three children: Kay M. Crawford and her husband, Ronald, of Landisville, Pa., Edna L. Slampak and her husband, Ronald, of Commerce Township, Michigan, and Kirk S. Foster and his wife, Bonnie, of Hopwood, Pa.; a brother, Robert P. Foster of Uniontown, Pa.; two stepdaughters: Marcy Cimini of Elizabeth, Pa., and Noreen Wallner of Uniontown, Pa.; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; one niece and one nephew.
The family will receive friends in the J. HARRY JOHNSTON FUNERAL HOME, 65 North Gallatin Avenue, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, today, December 17, from Noon to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Visitation will continue in SAINT PAUL’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 71 North Gallatin Avenue, Uniontown, on Monday, December 18, from 10 until 11 a.m. Services will begin at 11 a.m. with the Reverend Paul N. Frank Jr. officiating.
Interment will follow in Christ Lutheran Cemetery, Chalk Hill, Pa., where Military Rites will be accorded by the General George C. Marshall AMVETS Post 103.
The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Saint Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 71 North Gallatin Avenue, Uniontown, PA 15401.