Jack Redman Foster

His early years were spent in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kentucky. He attended Classen High School in Oklahoma City, Class of 1946. He attended the Universities of Oklahoma and Missouri, majoring in finance. He spent two years with Liberty Bank & Trust Co. of Oklahoma City prior to serving with the Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean Conflict. He then worked for two years as Assistant Credit Manager for Fred Jones Ford in Oklahoma City. In 1953 he joined Citizens National Bank and Trust Co. of Oklahoma City starting as a teller’s assistant and rising to the position of president in 1976. He retired from Citizens National Bank in 1983. Later that same year he went to work for Ruidoso State Bank in New Mexico where he retired in 1989 as President and Chairman of the Board. He returned to Oklahoma City and worked at Guaranty Bank and Trust until retiring in 2000. During his career, he served on the boards of trustees for Oklahoma City University and the Oklahoma Methodist Foundation, Inc. In Ruidoso, NM, he was an advisory director of the Continental Telephone of the West and served as treasurer of the Rotary Club. He also held memberships in the Economics Club, Allied Arts and other civic originations in Oklahoma City and Ruidoso, NM.

He met Elizabeth (Betty) Falletti in 1950 in Oklahoma City and they were married May 20, 1951. They had two children, Jan in 1958 and John in 1960. They would have celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary next month. They were longtime members of Mayfair Heights United Methodist Church and St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.

He was preceded in death by his parents, John Thomas Foster and Lillian Foster Kemble.

He is survived by his wife Betty, of the home, daughter Jan Shore and husband Pat of Edmond, son John and his wife Diane of Oklahoma City, granddaughters Sarah and Erin Shore, sister Jan Foster Morrell of Houston, TX and stepfather Allan D. Kemble, Jr., of Waxahachie, TX and several nieces and nephews. His family was his life.

The family will receive guests at Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper, 6600 Broadway Extension on Wednesday, April 27 from 5 – 7 PM. A private burial will precede services in the chapel at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15th Street in Oklahoma City at 2:00 PM on Thursday, April 28th.

The family would like to thank all the health care professionals that assisted Jack and the family during this difficult time.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to St. Luke’s United Methodist Church or the charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements under the direction of Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper Funeral Directors, Oklahoma City, OK.