Obit: Ankney, Foster (!916-1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Ankney, Slater, Blunt, Greene, Weller, Patrie, Hartzell, LaMay, Gisch

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (11 May 1983)

Ankney, Foster C. (14 February 1916 - 10 May 1983)

Unity -- Foster C. Ankney, 67, Route 1, Unity, was dead on arrival at the Colby Clinic.

Services will be Saturday at the Maurina Funeral Home, Abbotsford. The Rev. David W. Maki of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Dorchester, will officiate. Burial will be in Cornell Cemetery, Cornell.

He was born February 14, 1916 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He married Opel Slater. They lived in the Cornell area and later worked for J.I. Case, Racine. The past three years he lived in the Dorchester/Abbotsford/Unity areas.

Surviving are one son, Darrell D. Ankney of Unity; seven step-sons, George Blunt of Chippewa Falls, Ernest Blunt of Colby, Robert Blunt of Racine, Edward Blunt in Texas, Marshall Blunt in Washington, Gale Blunt of Racine; three step daughters, Mrs. Karen Greene of Unity, Mrs. Grace Weller of Edmond, Washington and Mrs. Lois Patrie of Henderson, North Carolina; two sisters, Mrs. Kenneth (Gladys) Hartell of Cornell and Mrs. Dave (Joyce) Le May of Cornell; three brothers, Douglas and Boyd, both of the state of Oregon, and Doran of Cornell; two grandsons; 45 step-grandchildren and 27 step-great-grandchildren.

He was predeceased by his wife in May 1971, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon (Lydia Gisch) Ankney, a brother and a sister.