Barry Kent Foster

Barry Kent Foster was born to William Arnold and Virginia Lee Foster in Houston, Texas, on September 23, 1953. His brave and humble battle with cancer ended on July 8, 2022, at the age of 68 in Rockport, Texas. He followed his father’s footsteps and completed the Sheet Metal Workers’ Apprenticeship on August 14, 1979, becoming a Journeyman Sheet Metal Worker for the next 33 years. He married his wife, Sylvia Joy Foster, on September 15, 1979, and created a beautiful family with daughter Jamie Lee and son William Kent.

He followed career opportunities to Austin, where he enjoyed gardening and remodeling with his wife, supporting his kids’ adventures in FFA, and hunting in the Texas Hill Country. He retired from the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union Local 67 in 2012, though he was a union member for 44 years. The drive to the salt water and his daughter’s growing family were too far, so he and his wife moved to Rockport, TX, where he spent time fishing and enjoying the coast with his family. Barry was known for being the type of person to give you the shirt off of his back and for going out of his way to do the right thing. He worked with his hands his whole life and could build or fix just about anything. We will share his tall fishing tales and catch our own flounder for Christmas dinner to keep memories of him close to us.

Barry is survived by his girls, his wife of 42 years, Sylvia Joy Foster, and daughter Jamie Lee; son-in-law, Frank Malone; grandson, Liam Malone; step-grandchildren, Brycen and Kyleigh Malone; brother and sister-in-law, William ‘Skip’ and JoAnn Foster; sister-in-law, Lisa Foster; sister- and brother-in-law Nelda and Tom McKeen, and many loved cousins, nieces, nephews, friends, and neighbors. He is predeceased by his son, William Kent; parents; brothers, Ronald Lee and Richard Elliot Foster; and nephew.

Before his death he was honored with a gathering of loved ones.

An intimate memorial will be held at a later date for interment of ashes next to his son. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in his memory to MD Anderson Cancer Center for cancer research at https://bit.ly/BKF-EndCancer He supported science and volunteered for several clinical trials so that others in the future might win their fight against cancer.

Services are entrusted to Funeraria Del Angel-Everhart, 4901 Everhart Road, Corpus Christi, TX 78411/

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.CageMillsFuneralDirectors.com for the Foster family.