Marjory Foster

Dr. Marjory "Midge" Bolger Foster, 88, died June 1, 2003, in Prairie Village. She was born Dec. 9, 1914, in Queens, N.Y., the daughter of Paul S. L. and Ethel M. Bolger. Dr. Marjory Foster was a resident of Topeka 52 years before moving to the Kansas City area five years ago. She was the wife of Dr. D. B. "Barney" Foster, neurologist with the Menninger Clinic and the Veterans Affairs Medcial Center before his death in 1993. Dr. Marjory Foster earned three college degrees in art history, a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and masters degree and a doctorate degree from The University of Kansas. She earned the latter at age 64. Augmenting her graduate studies were 13 trips to Europe, some for research culminating in a doctoral dissertation on the iconography of St. Joseph in Netherlandish art, 1400 to 1550. A member of Holy Name Catholic Church, Dr. Marjory Foster volunteered as a Junior Great Books leader in the school. She was a member of the Menninger Ladies Sewing Club, president of the Junior Louvre Art Club and a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. She was a gifted interior decorator of several family homes, including the Potwin home where the Fosters lived for 25 years and raised four children. Dr. Marjory Foster was preceded in death by a son, David Bolger Foster, who drowned in a 1968 canoe accident at the age of 14. She is survived by three daughters and one son-in-law of the Kansas City, Mo., area, Julie F. Graham, Mary F. Sullivan and Laura F. Wilson and Ted Wilson. She also is survived by five grandchildren, Heather Lewis, Ann Arbor, Mich., Faith Corley, Hawkins, Tex., David Wilson, Brooklyn, N.Y., Sarah Wilson, Palo Alto, Calif., and Peter Wilson, Lenexa; and three great-grandsons. Dr. Marjory Foster was cremated. The family invites Dr. Marjory Fosters friends to a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. June 13 at Holy Name Catholic Church, 1114 West Tenth Street. Burial will follow at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Then all are invited to lunch in the lower level of Holy Name School. The family requests no flowers. Memorial contributions are suggested to the St. Francis Hospital Foundation, 1700 S.W. Seventh Street, Topeka, 66606; or to Holy Name Church, 1114 S.W. Tenth Street, Topeka, 66604. Kevin Brennan Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Marjory Foster

December 9, 1914 - June 13, 2003