Notes About N.E. Iowans in the Service.
Greeley—Howard C. Foster, water tender second class, and Mrs. Foster are visiting in the home of Mrs. Foster’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Snyder of Greeley, formerly of Traer. The couple came here from Philadelphia, Pa., where Foster was graduated from advanced school for water tenders on naval boilers and turbines. He has been in the navy three and a half years and has served two years and nine months on overseas duty, on a destroyer. Foster has been in seven major battles and was at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. He saw action in the Pacific battles from Guadalcanal through Bougainville. He left Wednesday for the west coast to report for reassignment.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, December 6, 1944 (photo included)
Howard Charles Foster was born Dec. 6, 1921 to Charles H. and Esther E. Papst Foster. He died July 14, 1994 and is buried in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Ottumwa, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
