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Ashey Cemetery

Mrs Alma Foster

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Alma
Surnames: Foster
Date of Birth: 31/01/1863
Date of Death: 21/01/1943
Age at Death Years: 79
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG A01
Plot Number: Ashey Cemetery Section A Plots 131, 132, 134, 135, 136 & 137
Grave Description: 6 plots across 2 rows surrounded by kerb stones with central carved ornate Celtic cross on white base (plot 136). Smaller crosses with initials left and right of the main cross. The white base and smaller crosses appear to have been cleaned or replaced, the ornate cross is original and weathered. Base has inscriptions on all 4 sides in lead lettering.
Grave Condition: Good
Other Information: Additional inscription added June 2019 for Jeremy Foster, source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 11611

Inscription:

Plot 134
W.T.F.

Plot 135
A.P.F.

This appears to be a reused memorial stone. The back is carved but unsure if it relates to any part of this grave:
WHEE
ULY 31S
YEA
PEACE, PERFECT, PEACE

Plot 137
F.T.P.F.

(south side of base)
JEREMY
ESMOND
PEARCE FOSTER
1936 - 2016
BORN IN THE ANDMAN ISLANDS
GREW UP AND FARMED
IN RHODESIA BEFORE LATER
SETTLING IN ENGLAND.

Main cross
Front of base
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
FREDERICK
THOMAS PEARCE FOSTER,
LATE OF HONG KONG, AND OF
QUARR COURT, BINSTEAD,
BORN 10TH APRIL 1844,
HE PASSED TO HIS ETERNAL HOME,
ON THE 20TH JUNE 1915.
"THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD."
"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD."

Back of base
TO THE MEMORY OF
ALMA,
WIFE OF FREDERICK THOMAS
PEARCE FOSTER,
BORN AT ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
31ST JANUARY 1863,
MARRIED IN HONG KONG ON 18TH OCT. 1881,
WIDOWED ON 20TH JUNE 1915,
PASSED TO JOIN HER HUSBAND
IN HIS ETERNAL HOME ON 21ST JAN, 1943, IN LONDON.
"MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE AND I WILL GIVE THEE REST."

Right hand side of base
WILLIAM THOMAS
FOSTER
1928 - 2010

Photographs:

Carol Strong
Foster 8 March 2012
Photographer: Carol Strong
Carol Strong
A Foster 8 March 2012
Photographer: Carol Strong

Related Documents:

PDF file: Brief Obituary.
PDF file: National Probate Calendar.

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