The following obituary is from the Greensboro News & Record (NC) - August 29, 1995.
Clara Blair Barnes Townsend Foust passed away on Aug. 28, 1995, at Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point, where she had resided for the last four years.
Mrs. Foust was preceded in death by her husbands, Olanda Barnes, William F. Townsend and Henry P. Foust.
Mrs. Clara Foust was born in 1898 in Randolph County, several miles south of the village of Trinity, the daughter of Roland E. Blair and Myrtle English. Upon the death of Mrs. Foust's mother, at an early age, Mrs. Foust resided with her grandparents, Laura Adelia and Sidney Josiah Blair. Mrs. Blair-Foust often spoke of the high principles of her grandfather, who was a farmer. When many farmers were switching to tobacco crops because of the greater remuneration of such, he decided to continue growing his food crops exclusively. He considered the "then-fashionable" use of tobacco as not being in the best interest of the user. She was frequently taken by her grandparents during these years for church services at the Quaker Meeting House in Springfield, south of High Point. Many members of the Blair family are interred in the Quaker Church Cemetery in Springfield.
Mrs. Foust attended boarding school in Jamestown and graduated from Guilford College in 1918. While at Guilford College, she was an outstanding student, appeared in many plays, and was a proficient athlete, participating principally on the swimming and tennis teams. She took graduate work in the educational field at Columbia University in New York City and went on to teach in the Greensboro Schools for more than 40 years. Her first assignment was a teaching position at the Public Grade school in Jamestown.
She leaves two nieces, Nancy Earle Engleman of Washougal, Washington and Sarah Armstrong Landry Fiske of Greensboro, N.C.; two nephews, Claude E. Earle and William Blair of Salisbury, N.C.
Mrs. Foust will be remembered for her loving dedication to the many students she taught in the Greensboro Public Schools over the many years of her teaching career.
A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Cemetery with the Rev. George William Poulos of St. Andrews Episcopal Church officiating.
Clara Blair Barnes Townsend Foust passed away on Aug. 28, 1995, at Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point, where she had resided for the last four years.
Mrs. Foust was preceded in death by her husbands, Olanda Barnes, William F. Townsend and Henry P. Foust.
Mrs. Clara Foust was born in 1898 in Randolph County, several miles south of the village of Trinity, the daughter of Roland E. Blair and Myrtle English. Upon the death of Mrs. Foust's mother, at an early age, Mrs. Foust resided with her grandparents, Laura Adelia and Sidney Josiah Blair. Mrs. Blair-Foust often spoke of the high principles of her grandfather, who was a farmer. When many farmers were switching to tobacco crops because of the greater remuneration of such, he decided to continue growing his food crops exclusively. He considered the "then-fashionable" use of tobacco as not being in the best interest of the user. She was frequently taken by her grandparents during these years for church services at the Quaker Meeting House in Springfield, south of High Point. Many members of the Blair family are interred in the Quaker Church Cemetery in Springfield.
Mrs. Foust attended boarding school in Jamestown and graduated from Guilford College in 1918. While at Guilford College, she was an outstanding student, appeared in many plays, and was a proficient athlete, participating principally on the swimming and tennis teams. She took graduate work in the educational field at Columbia University in New York City and went on to teach in the Greensboro Schools for more than 40 years. Her first assignment was a teaching position at the Public Grade school in Jamestown.
She leaves two nieces, Nancy Earle Engleman of Washougal, Washington and Sarah Armstrong Landry Fiske of Greensboro, N.C.; two nephews, Claude E. Earle and William Blair of Salisbury, N.C.
Mrs. Foust will be remembered for her loving dedication to the many students she taught in the Greensboro Public Schools over the many years of her teaching career.
A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Cemetery with the Rev. George William Poulos of St. Andrews Episcopal Church officiating.
The following obituary is from the Greensboro News & Record (NC) - August 29, 1995.
Clara Blair Barnes Townsend Foust passed away on Aug. 28, 1995, at Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point, where she had resided for the last four years.
Mrs. Foust was preceded in death by her husbands, Olanda Barnes, William F. Townsend and Henry P. Foust.
Mrs. Clara Foust was born in 1898 in Randolph County, several miles south of the village of Trinity, the daughter of Roland E. Blair and Myrtle English. Upon the death of Mrs. Foust's mother, at an early age, Mrs. Foust resided with her grandparents, Laura Adelia and Sidney Josiah Blair. Mrs. Blair-Foust often spoke of the high principles of her grandfather, who was a farmer. When many farmers were switching to tobacco crops because of the greater remuneration of such, he decided to continue growing his food crops exclusively. He considered the "then-fashionable" use of tobacco as not being in the best interest of the user. She was frequently taken by her grandparents during these years for church services at the Quaker Meeting House in Springfield, south of High Point. Many members of the Blair family are interred in the Quaker Church Cemetery in Springfield.
Mrs. Foust attended boarding school in Jamestown and graduated from Guilford College in 1918. While at Guilford College, she was an outstanding student, appeared in many plays, and was a proficient athlete, participating principally on the swimming and tennis teams. She took graduate work in the educational field at Columbia University in New York City and went on to teach in the Greensboro Schools for more than 40 years. Her first assignment was a teaching position at the Public Grade school in Jamestown.
She leaves two nieces, Nancy Earle Engleman of Washougal, Washington and Sarah Armstrong Landry Fiske of Greensboro, N.C.; two nephews, Claude E. Earle and William Blair of Salisbury, N.C.
Mrs. Foust will be remembered for her loving dedication to the many students she taught in the Greensboro Public Schools over the many years of her teaching career.
A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Cemetery with the Rev. George William Poulos of St. Andrews Episcopal Church officiating.
Clara Blair Barnes Townsend Foust passed away on Aug. 28, 1995, at Maryfield Nursing Home in High Point, where she had resided for the last four years.
Mrs. Foust was preceded in death by her husbands, Olanda Barnes, William F. Townsend and Henry P. Foust.
Mrs. Clara Foust was born in 1898 in Randolph County, several miles south of the village of Trinity, the daughter of Roland E. Blair and Myrtle English. Upon the death of Mrs. Foust's mother, at an early age, Mrs. Foust resided with her grandparents, Laura Adelia and Sidney Josiah Blair. Mrs. Blair-Foust often spoke of the high principles of her grandfather, who was a farmer. When many farmers were switching to tobacco crops because of the greater remuneration of such, he decided to continue growing his food crops exclusively. He considered the "then-fashionable" use of tobacco as not being in the best interest of the user. She was frequently taken by her grandparents during these years for church services at the Quaker Meeting House in Springfield, south of High Point. Many members of the Blair family are interred in the Quaker Church Cemetery in Springfield.
Mrs. Foust attended boarding school in Jamestown and graduated from Guilford College in 1918. While at Guilford College, she was an outstanding student, appeared in many plays, and was a proficient athlete, participating principally on the swimming and tennis teams. She took graduate work in the educational field at Columbia University in New York City and went on to teach in the Greensboro Schools for more than 40 years. Her first assignment was a teaching position at the Public Grade school in Jamestown.
She leaves two nieces, Nancy Earle Engleman of Washougal, Washington and Sarah Armstrong Landry Fiske of Greensboro, N.C.; two nephews, Claude E. Earle and William Blair of Salisbury, N.C.
Mrs. Foust will be remembered for her loving dedication to the many students she taught in the Greensboro Public Schools over the many years of her teaching career.
A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Forest Lawn Cemetery with the Rev. George William Poulos of St. Andrews Episcopal Church officiating.
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