Earle Foster May 1, 1914 – February 5, 2008 A man of deep and wide-ranging inquisitiveness and enormous creativity, Earle Conning Foster was a world traveler and a self-made scholar, inventor, artist, and writer. Earle was born May 1, 1914, in Richmond Beach, Washington, and spent his entire professional career in marine and airway communications. He was a life member of the Society of Wireless Pioneers and holder of the first First Class Telegraph License issued in the Territory of Alaska. During World War II, he participated in the New Guinea and Okinawa campaigns and was based at the Airway Station off Sitka, Alaska. He was a RCA operator for Marine KPH in Point Reyes, California for 21 years and a radio operator on numerous freight and passenger liners, the last on the SS United States. Earle met the love of his life, his Maggie, on board the SS Denali; he was the chief radio operator and she was a passenger. After a six-week courtship, he and Margaret Raymer were married in 1940 and spent the next 44 years of their married life moving from Alaska to California to Massachusetts, finally retiring in San Jacinto, California in 1977. Although she died in 1984, their love was never far from his heart, reflected in the twinkle in his eye and the stories that were always on the tip of his tongue. He moved to Austin, Texas in 2004 to be closer to his daughter and family. He is survived by his daughter Anne Foster Dietz, son-in-law, Professor Henry A. Dietz, and granddaughter Allison Dietz of Austin and granddaughter Gillian Jarvis and her husband, Harry Jarvis III of West Hollywood, California. His death on February 5, 2008, just shy of his 94th birthday, ended a life filled with adventure, talent, love and good health.
Earle Foster May 1, 1914 – February 5, 2008 A man of deep and wide-ranging inquisitiveness and enormous creativity, Earle Conning Foster was a world traveler and a self-made scholar, inventor, artist, and writer. Earle was born May 1, 1914, in Richmond Beach, Washington, and spent his entire professional career in marine and airway communications. He was a life member of the Society of Wireless Pioneers and holder of the first First Class Telegraph License issued in the Territory of Alaska. During World War II, he participated in the New Guinea and Okinawa campaigns and was based at the Airway Station off Sitka, Alaska. He was a RCA operator for Marine KPH in Point Reyes, California for 21 years and a radio operator on numerous freight and passenger liners, the last on the SS United States. Earle met the love of his life, his Maggie, on board the SS Denali; he was the chief radio operator and she was a passenger. After a six-week courtship, he and Margaret Raymer were married in 1940 and spent the next 44 years of their married life moving from Alaska to California to Massachusetts, finally retiring in San Jacinto, California in 1977. Although she died in 1984, their love was never far from his heart, reflected in the twinkle in his eye and the stories that were always on the tip of his tongue. He moved to Austin, Texas in 2004 to be closer to his daughter and family. He is survived by his daughter Anne Foster Dietz, son-in-law, Professor Henry A. Dietz, and granddaughter Allison Dietz of Austin and granddaughter Gillian Jarvis and her husband, Harry Jarvis III of West Hollywood, California. His death on February 5, 2008, just shy of his 94th birthday, ended a life filled with adventure, talent, love and good health.
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