Extracted from The Alamogordo Daily News (Alamogordo, NM)
Tuesday, October 4, 1960

Foster Rites Planned

Funeral services for J. R. (Tude) Foster, 49, well-known Alamogordo barber shop owner, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Grace Methodist Church.

Friends may call at the Mullins-Hamilton Funeral Home from 2 until 5 p.m. and from 7 until 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 8 a.m. until noon on Wednesday.

Foster died early Monday in the Truth or Consequences hospital where he had been taken after suffering a heart attack while on a fishing trip. He had suffered from a heart condition for several years.

The Rev. Ed Hamilton will conduct services for Foster, who had lived in Alamogordo since 1939. Burial will be in Monte Vista Cemetery, with John Dalton, Charlie Dean, A. A. Bass, Archie Lacey, Tommy Childress and Bill Anderson as pallbearers.

Prominent in the civic and business life of the city, Foster was a past president of the Alamogordo Lions Club and was a member of the Elks Lodge. He was born June 4, 1911 in New Castle, Okla.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Beulah Foster; one son, Jerry, of Alamogordo; a daughter, Mrs. Norma Woodell, of Levelland, Tex.; two grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. Mabel Foster, of San Diego, Calif.; four brothers, Jim and Reece Foster, of San Diego, and Paul and Homer Foster, both of Redondo Beach, Calif.; and four sisters, Mrs. Jomae Rockhill, Mrs. Wayne Farrar and Mrs. Ray Frazier, all of San Diego, and Mrs. Foster Chanslor, of Woodland Hill, Calif.