Virginia Foster Feb. 15, 1949 – Nov. 9, 2018

      Virginia Foster age 69, died Friday, Nov. 9, 2018 at University Hospital, Iowa City following a brief illness. Graveside Services will be held 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 at the Oakwood Cemetery.  Friends may call from 10 a.m. until 12 noon, Saturday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Memorials may be made to the U of I Hospital.

      Surviving are seven children, Anne Hurt, Christine Hurt, Tara Mann, Amanda Tuetken, Dan (Angie) Foster, Debbra (Kevin) Herbert, Wendy (Mark) LeMense, six grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and many brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her best friend and loving husband, John, two sons, Johnny and Brett, her brother, Edwyn Fear and her sister, Janice Neybert.

      Virginia Gail Moncrief was born Feb. 15, 1949 in Monticello, Iowa.  She was the daughter of Curtis and Una Bacon, Moncrief.  Virginia received her education in the Monticello Community Schools.  She married Charles Hurt and had two daughters, she married Michael Mann and had two more daughters, she married John Foster and gained a son and two daughters.

      As a teenager she worked as a waitress in Bob Loomis's Café in Monticello.  In her adult life she worked as a dispatcher for the Monticello Police Department, for Lewis Systems as a secretary and at the Monti Motel and Loops Motel in housekeeping.   She spent the majority of time raising her family.   In more recent years Virginia cleaned for Tri-County Bank, Frank N. Magid, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rectory and also in private homes.

      She enjoyed planting flowers, playing cards, cross stitch, crocheting, reading, adult coloring books and her pets.

      The visitation and service will be for both Virginia and her husband John who died in 2013.