Born Oct. 21, 1944
Pontiac, Michigan
Died July 12, 2025
Lebanon, New Hampshire
Details of services
No services are planned at this time. Condolences may be expressed to Susan’s family in an online guestbook at www.knightfuneralhomes.com
Contributions in Susan’s memory may be made to the Upper Valley Humane Society, 300 Old Route 10, Enfield, NH 03748 or at UVHS.org.
West Windsor, VT – Susan Rebecca Foster, 80, died Saturday July 12, 2025, at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative Care in Lebanon, NH.
She was born October 21, 1944, in Pontiac, MI a daughter of Homer J. and Marion (Discovish) Murphy. Susan spent her early years in Bloomfield Hills, MI before attending Mercy College of Detroit. She married W. Jay Foster on September 1, 1965, and they settled in Royal Oak, MI where they began their family. The family moved to the Upper Valley in the early 1970’s, living in Wilder, West Lebanon, and Meriden and for a time in New Smyrna Beach FL, before purchasing the Fox Penny Farm in West Windsor, where they have lived since 1993.
Susan worked as an accountant, with her husband, at Foster & Bridgman, CPA’s and later worked with her daughter running Fox Penny Farm. She loved all aspects of running a horse farm, from running the office, to working in the barns, to mowing fields on a big tractor. She also enjoyed fox hunting and spending time with her beloved Jack Russell Terriers.
She leaves her husband of nearly sixty years, Jay, of West Windsor, children, Sean S. Foster of South Daytona, FL, and Kelly C. Foster (Christian Matz) of West Windsor; granddaughter Raegan Foster; brother Michael Murphy of Lovettsville, VA, and niece Laura Murphy.
No services are planned at this time. Condolences may be expressed to Susan’s family in an online guestbook at www.knightfuneralhomes.com
Contributions in Susan’s memory may be made to the Upper Valley Humane Society, 300 Old Route 10, Enfield, NH 03748 or at UVHS.org.
