MARION HELEN FOSTER

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MARION HELEN FOSTER
1941 - 2022

Marion died suddenly May 28, 2022 in hospital at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. It is especially sad that this was also her 81st birthday. She was a loving, caring, generous person taken away from us by breast and painful bone cancer.
Marion is survived by her two brothers, Bob and Gary; and loving spouse, Marjorie with her two daughters, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Her older sister, Ethelda and her parents, Ada and Hubert Foster, were previously deceased.
She was born in Saskatchewan the second oldest of four children. Her youth was spent reading and scouring the hills for teepee rings, buffalo rubbing rocks, arrowheads, bones, and fossils. She attended high school in Moose Jaw and completed psychiatric nursing at the Moose Jaw Training School.
With friends she travelled through central Europe as back packers, spent a year working on a Kibbutz in Israel. That was a thing for young intellectuals to do at that time. Went to New Zealand and picked fruit, then spent a summer travelling in Australia. She came back to Moose Jaw and psych nursing. As a charge nurse she became heavily involved with patient physical therapy and also managed a co-op green house in her spare time.
Marion came to Winnipeg in 1984. Trained as a masseuse and was involved with starting the first masseuse association in Winnipeg. Arthritis in her back turned her to focus elsewhere. Under Age and Opportunity, she taught English for a while. Her attention turned to fossils and was involved with the Mineral Society of Manitoba. In 2017 she was awarded a certificate for 15 years volunteering in the Paleontology department at the Manitoba Museum.
She was one of the founding members of the Raging Grannies of Winnipeg and also sang in the Labour Choir. She was delightful as one of the cats in the play "Mouse Land" which was staged and directed by L. Henry. She enjoyed dogs and cats, was a frequent contributor to the Humane Society and held great interest in wildlife conservation.
So many things Marion did so willing, always when asked, most often seeing beforehand what was needed. She loved without bounds family, friends, and animals. We got together in 1986, got married in 2015 and spent thirty-six wonderful and eventful years together. She will be remembered best for her kindness and in her keen interest in all she met.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, June 10, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at Chapel Lawn Funeral Home, 4000 Portage Avenue. Interment to follow in the Good Samaritan Garden, Chapel Lawn Funeral Home & Cemetery, 4000 Portage Avenue.

For those who wish to sign the online Guest Book please visit www.chapellawn.ca

Chapel Lawn Funeral Home
204-885-9715

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jun 04, 2022