Carl Foster Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Carl Edward Foster was born as the middle of three children to Eddie Gerald Foster and Bonita Joyce Carroll. Carl was born on November 3, 1971 and was a strong believer in Christ and accepted Christ at an early age. He attended faithfully as a member of Henderson Hills Baptist Church and took his family with him each week and more recently had enjoyed Wednesday night bible study there. His most cherished hobbies were OU football games, watching The Walking Dead, listening to AC/DC or Johnny Lang and had a fondness for fast cars, especially Mustangs. He enjoyed collecting watches and gadgets of all types. In the past two years he had discovered a profound love for kayaking and riding his bike. His next adventure was learning to play tennis and he had been reading all the rules of the game. He felt at home in the outdoors and with his family and never wanted to leave their side. Carl attend Parmalee and Council Grove Elementary School. He attended Polk 5th grade center and Webster Middle School. He was a proud 1990 Spartan graduate of Southeast High School, graduated with almost a 4.0, was the girls basketball manager, and during high school worked full time as well. He still had many friends from there that were dear to his heart that he kept in contact with. His lifelong best friend, Brian Engle was still a large part of his life and enjoyed doing things with him every chance he could. After high school, Carl eagerly joined and went to the United States Naval boot camp in Orlando, Florida in February 1991 and graduated April of 1991. He attended Personnelman Service School and graduated in July of 1991. His first duty was at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania as a personnel clerk until 1993. He then transferred to the U.S.S. Anzio CG-68, the Naval Station in Norfolk, Virginia. He served on the naval ship from 1993 to 1995, a position he enjoyed. After fulfilling his naval obligation, Carl returned to his home in Oklahoma City and worked at Dell Computers for ten years. His time with Dell brought many fond opportunities and he greatly enjoyed all the service projects he helped with and was a big part of leading projects while at Dell. He then went back to college full time and achieved a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. Currently, he was employed at Forcepoint as a Technical Account Manager for over four years. He also was active with his son Cameron and served in the role of Scoutmaster, Troop 150, for the Boy Scouts of America, a troop in Moore. Later he was involved in Troop 79 in Edmond as an Assistant Scoutmaster with his son, Benjamin. He enjoyed having a positive influence in young boys’ life and was a role model to all. Carl felt strongly about diabetes research and at one time was President of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). However, of all these various roles and joys, it was clear in all he did, that his most important love was his family. He demonstrated this by being dependable, available, caring and responsive to their needs. He liked making biscuits and gravy on Saturday morning for his daughter Lauren and sending silly memes back and forth to his son Cameron and helping him learn to drive. Carl was always glad to hear from his kids who were grown and out of the house. He liked watching MacGyver with Ben and taking him camping. Carl always made sure he joked with Eden about the Miraculous Ladybug show and listened endlessly to her discuss it. He would take Emily to the store at a moment’s notice, so she could bake another cake or pie or macarons. Anytime he could grill he did, and every day was a good day for hot wings. Carl was passionate, always smiling and everything he did, he did with style and effort. He would put sunflowers by his wife’s side of the bed to remind her of their wedding day. Carl was preceded in death by his precious grandparents, Carl and Geneva. He is survived by his father Ed Foster and wife Gigi, his beloved mother Bonita, sister Sonya, brother Bryan and his wife Andrea and aunts and uncles. Carl leaves to treasure his wife and the love of his life Missy Foster; daughters Ashlyn, Lauren, Emily and Eden, and sons Mason, Cameron, Andrew and Ben; granddaughter Emilie, and a host of nieces and cousins. He will live forever among the lighthouses and waters, the sunshine, the sunflowers and the gentle breeze and in the precious life that continues on for us all left tragically behind. Funeral services for Carl will be held on Friday, October 26th, 2018 at 9 a.m. at Henderson Hills Baptist Church, 1200 E I- 35 Frontage Rd, Edmond, OK 73034. If you are in crisis or know someone who is, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-Talk (8255) https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or Text our trained Crisis Counselors about anything that’s on your mind. Text “GO” to 741741, 24/7, Free and confidential.

Carl Foster

November 3, 1971 - October 17, 2018