April 10, 1930 – Dec. 1, 2010
Margaret Lea Hilliard Foust, 80, of Sweet Home died Dec. 1, 2010. She was born April 10, 1930 to Sidney Christopher and Iva Lorene (Williams) Hilliard in Larnard, Kan.
For the first six years of her life she lived on a dairy farm in Kansas with her brother James and sister Irene. The family moved to Bluejacket, Okla. where she went to school for seven years. She spent her summers in Kansas while her father worked the wheat harvests.
During World War II her father was in the Army Air Force. She, her mother and siblings followed him as close as they could to Fort Louisville, Ky., and Fort Knox. Later they moved to Taft, Calif. while her dad was stationed at Camp Muroc.
After the war the family moved back to their home in Bluejacket, where she met and married Howard Arms in 1947. Mr. Arms worked as a welder on oil tanks.
They moved around to Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma with his job. In 1958, her brother-in-law Jay was killed in a construction accident.
After that the whole family moved to Sweet Home. They made their family home in the Liberty area. The Armses divorced in 1973.
She then married George Ray Foust in Arcata, Calif. in 1975. He died in December of 2000.
Mrs. Foust accepted Christ at an early age and was a member of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. Through the years, she taught children’s Sunday School and organized Christmas programs.
She is survived by a daughter, Charlotte and son-in-law Don Schilling of Sweet Home; son Chris and daughter-in-law Wanda Arms, also of Sweet Home; one sister, Irene Schilling of Sweet Home; six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her brother, James Hilliard.
Services have been held. Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.