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Submitted: 7/19/21 • Approved: 7/19/21 • Last Updated: 7/22/21 • R1383043-G25962-S3
January 6, 1932 - May 5, 1978
*Obituary
Springdale News
Sunday, May 7, 1978
Mrs. Marion Sharpe Foster, 46, of West Fork, died May 5 in a Fayetteville hospital. Born Jan. 6, 1932, in Chicago, Ill., she was the daughter of Earl and Tess Killian Conklin and a member of the Baptist Church. She moved here a year ago from Louisiana.
Survivors include her husband, James C. Foster Jr. of the home; three sons, David C. Sharpe of Ada, Okla., James C. Sharpe of Irving, Texas and Michael Sharpe, stationed with the U.S. Navy in Norfolk, Va.; four daughters, Mrs. Susan Kirkland, Mrs. Christine Adamas and Dianne Sharpe of Irving, Texas, and Mrs. Debbie Swierk of Broadmore, Ill.; two stepsons, James R. Foster of Kearney, Neb., and Johnny Lee Foster of Farmington, N.M.; three stepdaughters, Debbie Foster, Mary Yvonne Foster and Cynthia Mae Foster of Durango, Colo.; her mother of Trevor, Wis.; two brothers, Dale Conklin of Antioch, Ill., and Bob Conklin of Chicago, Ill.; three sisters, Mrs. Mitzie Kickerbaucker, of Antioch, Ill., Mrs. Dianne Clothe of Trevor, Wis., and Mrs. Joan Bennet of Aurora, Ill.; and 11 grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Moore's Chapel, Fayetteville, with the Rev. James A. Criswell officiating. Burial will be in Wolsey Cemetery under the direction of Moore's.
Pallbearers will be Ross Evans, Harold Pierce, Charles Adams, Dick Kirkland, Kenneth McKee and Jim Lackey.
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