In Memory of Janet Onita Foster

March 11th, 2006

Janet Onita Foster

I am telling the story of Janet Onita Foster. My mom was always a hard worker and a person that had a heart of gold. She worked two jobs and took care of my brother and I. She also took care of my grandmother who was ill. She made sure we never went hungry and that we always had nice clothes to wear and that we kept our grades up so that we could go to college. About eleven years ago my brother was killed in a car accident. About two weeks after his death, on my moms birthday, my grandmother died. Shortly after that my mom found out that she had diabetes then breast cancer . In the past couple of years she went through several illnesses such as having both legs amputated, loosing her eyesight, having to learn how to walk with artificial limbs, and a recurrance of breast cancer. She also had liver damage from medicine that she was taking for another illness. Even through all this my mom still held her head high. She never would show her pain. It was very hard for me to watch my mother go through the pain that she did over the last couple of years. I remebered we cried together when her hair came out as a result of her cancer treatments, but through it all I can say she was a fighter.

I’m just sad that I’m telling her story instead of her. She was a great mother, a wonderful grandmother and a true friend to all that knew her. My husband, kids and the memories of my mother are what keeps me moving . Some days I don’t want to move but I can hear her saying, “Come on and get up – things could be worse” and I think about how blessed I am.

Janet Onita Foster
12/9/1950 – 3/10/2006
“You will be surely missed but never forgotten.”

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