Heber Eugene Foster

February 7, 1921 - July 16, 2014

Heber Eugene Foster; 93 of Madisonville, TX passed away on July 16, 2014 at his home. Funeral services are scheduled for 10AM Wednesday, July 23rd at Day Funeral Home Chapel in Madisonville with the burial to follow in Joyze Cemetery which is also in Madisonville. The visitation is scheduled from 5-7PM on Tuesday, July 23rd also at Day Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. Arnold Foster will officiate. Heber was born on February 7, 1921 in Madisonville, Texas to Samuel Henry Foster and Capatolia Perna (Parsons) Foster. He graduated from Madisonville High School in March 1939. He then attended Sam Houston University in Huntsville, where he met and married his sweetheart, Dorothy Nell Hill. Heber entered the U.S. Army Air Force on October 21, 1943. He served in the 5th Air Force in the South Pacific during World War II for 2 years. After his military service, Heber went to work at Hughes Tool Company near downtown Houston as a General Foreman. He and Dorothy lived in Jacinto County and raised two sons, Stephen J. Foster and Michael G. Foster, and two daughters, Sharon K. Foster and Karen S. Foster. In 1970, Heber and Dorothy moved to Crosby, Texas and lived there for 21 years. Heber retired from Hughes Tool Company in 1985. Heber and Dorothy moved to Madisonville in 1991. Dorothy passed away May 16, 1996. They were happily married for 55 years. Heber loved gardening, fishing, hunting, playing his fiddle, barbecuing, and building bluebird houses. His most treasured possession was a fiddle his father gave him. He is survived by his sister, Lilly Belle (Foster) Burr; sons, Michael G. Foster and wife, Vina and Stephen J. Foster and wife, JoAnne; daughters, Sharon K. Foster and Karen S. Foster; grandchildren, Joshua J. Foster, Tyler S. Foster and wife, Brianna, Anna L. Foster, Abbie L. (Foster) Sanford and husband, Justin, Taft M. Foster and wife, Robyn, Jacob A. Foster, Courtney A. Foster, and Austin R. Foster; and great-grandchildren, Riley R. Foster, Jude T. Foster, Owen T. Foster, and Theodore T. Foster.