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Memorial services
for Mrs. Martha Foster Leonard, 86, of
Nampa, who died Wednesday, December
4. 1991, at a Nampa
care center, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sunday, December 8,
1991, at the Alsip Funeral Chapel,
Nampa.
Col. James Woods of Boise will officiate.
Chapel rites will be
conducted by the Order of Eastern Star, Nampa Chapter #30.
Private burial will
be in the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens,
Caldwell.
Martha Foster
Leonard was born on October 18, 1905, in
Twin Falls,
Idaho, to George and Fannie Turner
Holmes. She attended schools in the
Magic
Valley until she moved with her family
to Nampa where she graduated
from Nampa
High School.
She married Delbert Foster on November 5, 1924, in Caldwell.
They lived in
Long
Valley where he was a
logger. In 1931 they
moved to Nampa and lived on a small
acreage on
Orchard Ave.
They divorced in 1966.
She married Fred Leonard on June 1, 1969, in Nampa.
He died in 1970.
She has worked as a homemaker her entire married
life.
She was
a member of the Nampa Christian Church and was a 50 plus
year member of the Order of Eastern Star.
She was also a member of the Daughters of the
Nile and the Lady Elks.
She loved a
variety of sports which she participated in, including golf,
bowling, camping and fishing.
She is survived
by a son and daughter-in-law, Bernard and Mary Foster,
Riggins, ID; four grandchildren, Michael Foster of Molla11a,
OR., Candice Thomas and Pamela Foster, both of Grangeville,
ID, and Shelly Bigger of Lewiston, ID: 15 grandchildren; one
great-grandson; and a brother, Cecil Holmes of Boise, ID.
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