Brief Life History of Iona Luzella
When Iona Luzella Foster was born on 31 August 1908, in Silverton, San Juan, Colorado, United States, her father, Clarence Leroy Foster, was 25 and her mother, Anna Maude Pinkerton, was 22. She married David Lyle Wright on 27 May 1925, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States. She lived in Rockwood, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States in 1920. She died on 25 August 1939, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Jone Foster in household of C L Foster, "United States Census, 1910"
- Ione Foster, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Ione Foster Wright, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1898–1964 Male
1908–1939 Female
Parents and Siblings
1882–1956 Male
1886–1962 Female
Siblings (4)
1908–1939 Female
1910–1972 Female
1912– Female
1920–1970 Male
World Events (8)
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Age 1
1909 · Garden of the Gods Park
Age 1
1917
Age 9
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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