Grady C. Foster

September 5, 1928 - December 17, 2009

Grady Foster Grady Cleveland Foster, 81, of Fairmont, Pricketts Creek Community, passed away on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at his home. He was born in Fairmont on September 5, 1928 a son of the late Ray Foster and Cecilia McIntire Foster. Mr. Foster was preceded in death by his loving wife, Margaret Williams Foster. He retired from the Owens Illinois Glass plant in Fairmont with 30 years of service as a master electrician. Grady had a great sense of humor. He was a wonderful story and joke teller. He was very fond of sports especially football. Grady enjoyed life and had many interests. He was an avid fisherman and played a great deal of golf. In his younger years he spent a lot of his time working on cars. He took up 4-wheeling in his seventies. He is survived by his daughters, Barbara Pride and her husband Kenneth of Fairmont and Kathy Hughes also of Fairmont; his grandchildren, Summer Satterfield and her husband Eric of Fairmont, Jennifer Bailey and her husband John of Fairmont and Brian Shorter of Virginia and a very special great granddaughter, Madison Bailey. In addition to his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Russell Foster and two sisters, Lora Bell Seccurro and Roxie Herndon. Friends and family may call at the Carpenter & Ford Funeral Home, 209 Merchant Street, Fairmont on Sunday from 1pm to 2pm. The funeral service will be at 2pm on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at the funeral home with Pastor Jim Zinn officiating. Entombment will follow in the mausoleum at Mt. Zion Cemetery. Online condolences may be sent to the Foster Family at carpenterandford.com.