Woodward County Obituary
Elmwood Cemetery

© Woodward News
December 3, 2010
Reprinted with permission
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

BONNIE JEAN GREENLEE FOSTER

15 Apr 1931 - 30 Nov 2010

Woodward, Okla. — Bonnie Jean (Greenlee) Foster, 79, of Woodward, died Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City from a brain hemorrhage. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 4, 2010 at the Crown Heights Baptist Church in Woodward with the Reverend Steve Bearden officiating. Interment will be in the Elmwood Cemetery . Arrangements are under the direction of the Billings Funeral Home.

Bonnie Jean Greenlee was born April 15, 1931, on a pallet by the bedroom door on a warm spring day in the two-room lap-sided farm home of John William and Lucy Mae Greenlee, ten miles southwest of Buffalo, with Dr. Walker in attendance. She grew to womanhood on the farm, helping milk cows, tending chickens, gathering kindling, and drawing water from the cistern. She loved fishing with Papa and walking the wheat fields and pastures to check fences after a rain with him.

She married Lawrence Price on September 16, 1948, and graduated from high school in 1949. She was blessed with seven children, Arthur Edwin, Melvin Roy, Lola Diane, John Ross, Ada Jane, Avis Jean, and Isaac Neil. In the fall of 1970, she moved to Alva and entered college at Northwestern State University with her son, Melvin. On July 2, 1972, she married Carl Eugene Foster, and they made their home on his farm 15 1/2 miles northeast of Woodward, where she became a full-time farm wife. She enjoyed learning to operate the binder, shocking feed, hauling hay on a hayrack with the B John Deere, hunting ducks and quail, fishing, long walks through the canyons, quilting and crocheting, and the farm Christmases with the children home to cut the tree, sing carols and help decorate. In May, 1982, they moved to the home in Woodward, which they helped build, but continued the farming operation until poor health forced Carl to retire in 1995.

A few of the many things that gave her life so much meaning in later life was having the Prophet family acreage recognized by the Centennial Farm & Ranch Program, getting her 50 year Order of the Eastern Star pin, being baptized, and being surrounded by her Crown Heights Baptist Church family. Her philosophy of life was that you can either laugh or cry. Her humor and wit will be greatly missed.

Survivors are four sons, Arthur and Paulette Price of Perryton, Texas, and their children, Michael and Tye Price, Christy Price, Brandon and Stacey Johnston, and Brianna Price; Melvin and Phillis Price of Laverne, and their children, Bryan and Debbie Price, and Brandi and Chris Brannan; John Price of Fargo; Isaac and Joy Price of Woodward and their children, Jay Price and friend Syreeta Rodriguez, Annie and Wade Headley, Andi and Joe Stevenson, and Danielle and Brian Meadors; and three daughters, Diane and Rod Savely of Woodward, and their children, Melonie and Greg White, Toni Savely, Robert Savely and Ryan Savely; Ada and Greg Clark of Mooreland , and their children, John and Andie Wilson, Jennifer and Chad Headrick, and Shana and Mike Pomeroy; Avis and Bill Canton, of Wyoming; many great-grandchildren and other dear relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother Loyd William Greenlee, one sister, Doris Frank, a granddaughter, Michelle Canton, and long-time family friend, Ed Jordan.

Memorial contributions may be made in memory of Bonnie to the Crown Heights Baptist Church with the funeral home accepting the contributions. Remembrances may be shared online at www.billingsfuneralhomewoodward.com