Joseph Austin Foster was born on March 7, 1903 in Clark Fork, Bonner County, Idaho, next to Lake Pend Oreille. His parents were Joseph Rusitshka Foster (1863-1943) and Theresa Foerster (1862-1942), both were immigrants from Bohemia. He was the youngest of 9 siblings. He recalled seeing Halley's Comet as bright as day when he was a boy in 1910. He became a carpenter by trade and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1920s. He also worked as a background person in silent movies. Around this time he married Mary Francis Bryan (1901-1962) and had 4 children. In the late 1920s Joe helped build the so-called casino building on Avalon, Catlina Island. During the 1930s Depression-era, Joe moved his elderly parents to Los Angeles to care for them until they died in the early 1940s. It was also around this time that Joe and Mary Francis divorced. He remarried in the 1950s (to Ida) and resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma for years. After Ida died in 1977, Joe returned to Los Angeles to be closer to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Joe died on June 22, 1992 at a home in Montebello, California and is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park.
Joseph Austin Foster was born on March 7, 1903 in Clark Fork, Bonner County, Idaho, next to Lake Pend Oreille. His parents were Joseph Rusitshka Foster (1863-1943) and Theresa Foerster (1862-1942), both were immigrants from Bohemia. He was the youngest of 9 siblings. He recalled seeing Halley's Comet as bright as day when he was a boy in 1910. He became a carpenter by trade and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1920s. He also worked as a background person in silent movies. Around this time he married Mary Francis Bryan (1901-1962) and had 4 children. In the late 1920s Joe helped build the so-called casino building on Avalon, Catlina Island. During the 1930s Depression-era, Joe moved his elderly parents to Los Angeles to care for them until they died in the early 1940s. It was also around this time that Joe and Mary Francis divorced. He remarried in the 1950s (to Ida) and resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma for years. After Ida died in 1977, Joe returned to Los Angeles to be closer to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Joe died on June 22, 1992 at a home in Montebello, California and is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park.
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