This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foss, Bourdon, Kennedy, Johnson, Evans, Scheunck, Luenberg, Fyksen, Arneson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/2227 Message Board Post: Emily B. Foss, 89 Emily Bridget Foss, 89, of Hudson, a longtime business woman, died at her home Sunday, Oct. 27. She was born March 27, 1913, in St. Paul, Minn., the daughter of Emil and Lillian (Kennedy) Bourdon. The oldest of six children, she was 14 years old when her father became seriously ill and she had to leave school to help support her family. In applying for a job, she said she was older in order to get a job in downtown St. Paul. Later she attended night school to learn bookkeeping. This worked out well for her in later years. On May 12, 1934, in Hastings, Minn., she was married to Wallace "Wally" Henry Foss. In 1951, they bought the Hudson Elevator Company, at 111 Commercial Street, in Hudson. It was then her bookkeeping training came in handy. While her husband was busy at the grain elevator, she did the company's books at home while caring for her family. After her husband died in 1971, she went to the business every day to work alongside her oldest son, Wally Foss Jr., who assumed his father's position. When Wally Foss Jr. died in 1984, she continued from her home to assist her grandson, Richard, in the operation of the business. When she turned 80 years old, in 1994, she sold the Hudson Elevator Company. She enjoyed spending time with her family and was an avid golfer. She was a member of Mount Zion Lutheran Church, a charter member of the Hudson Country Club and had a lifetime membership at the Badlands Golf Course in Roberts. She was a very caring and compassionate person who frequently sent cards with uplifting messages to shut-ins. Survivors are her daughter, Joyce Anne Johnson of Roberts; three sons, David (Susan) Foss of Le Claire, Iowa, Joseph (Ruth) Foss of Hudson and Robert (Laurie) Foss of Stillwater; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild; three sisters-in-law, Hazel Foss of Wayzata, Minn., Elanor Bourdon and Donna Bourdon, both of St. Paul; and a brother-in-law, Jerome Evans of Lindstrom, Minn. Preceding her in death, besides her husband, Wallace H. Foss, in 1971, were her son, Wallace H. Foss Jr., in 1984, a son-in-law, Lauren Johnson, two brothers, Emil and Harvey Bourdon, and two sisters, Josephine Scheunck and Lillian Evans. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Hudson with Pastor Keith Luenberg officiating. At the service organist Betty Fyksen will accompany vocalist Robin Arneson. Burial will be in Willow River Cemetery, where her grandchildren, LeRoy, Lon and Todd Johnson and Richard, Steven and Nicole Foss, will serve as casketbearers. Visitation was from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson © 2003 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=6717&SectionID=33&SubSectionID=103&S=1