Priscilla was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the third of five lively and vivacious children of Frances LeBaron Landry and Arthur B. Landry, Sr., M.D.
She graduated from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and married Robert F. Foster on July 28, 1951. For their honeymoon, the couple travelled to Austin to begin teaching careers at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School. She participated fully in the life of St. Stephen’s, taught life sciences and modern dance, supervised a variety of dorm activities, coached girl’s field hockey and soccer, and eventually became administrator of the renowned St. Stephen’s Middle School. Although she retired in 1988, her innumerable contributions are remembered at St. Stephen’s through The Priscilla Foster Citizenship Award given each year in her honor.
In 1990, she became the 400th liver transplant recipient at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. Priscilla firmly believed in the miracles of organ transplantation and started the first liver transplant support group in Austin. She lived a healthy and productive life for the next 21 years.
Priscilla loved chocolate, crossword puzzles, naps, reading fiction and The New Yorker, Chanel No. 5 perfume, heated car seats, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, McDonald’s French fries and Chez Zee’s crab cakes, Hawk’s Nest Beach Connecticut, Ruidoso New Mexico, scrambled eggs and English muffins on Sunday mornings and the lake view from her beloved home on Aqua Verde. Most of all, she loved her husband, her brothers and sisters, her children and her friends.
Priscilla is survived by her husband of 60 years, Robert F. Foster; her daughter Cate and son-in-law Neil Ormond of Fresno, California; daughter Liz and son-in-law Dennis Luczycki of Dallas; son John Foster, M.D., and daughter-in-law Lynn Foster of Dallas; daughter Ann Foster and her partner Allan Cook of Austin; grand-daughter Bryce Foster, M.D., of San Antonio, and grandson Adam Foster, of Dallas; sister Connie Cosgrove of Guilford, Connecticut; and brother Arthur B. Landry, Jr., M.D., of Old Lyme, Connecticut; and numerous nieces and nephews and their families.
Priscilla Foster was a courageous, funny, loving and gracious woman. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her.
Priscilla’s family would like to extend profound and heartfelt thanks to all the exceptional and caring staff at Westminster Health Care Center and Hospice Austin who helped to care for her in the last months and days of her life.
A private service and burial will be scheduled. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to the Priscilla L. Foster Endowment, c/o St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, 6500 St. Stephen’s Dr., Austin TX 78746.
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