When Claude Edward Foster was born on 14 April 1928, in Burnwell, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, his father, Van Buren Foster Jr., was 21 and his mother, Mabel Kees, was 22. He lived in Cabin Creek District, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1940 and Chesapeake, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States for about 57 years. He died on 22 May 2007, at the age of 79, and was buried in London, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States.
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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.
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