Margarita Foerster Astle

PROVIDENCE, UTAH: Margarita Foerster Astle, 94 passed away on Aug. 7,2008. She was born June 20 1914 in Neudorf, Germany. She was the first of 4 girls born to Ernst Albert and Ella Fischer Foerster. Margarita and her family immigrated to the United States in 1927. They lived the New York City area for twelve years. She attended school in the New York public system. She graduated from high school and then graduated from the Drake Business School. She worked as a secretary and court stenographer. In 1940 her family moved to Salt Lake City.
Margarita married and was sealed to David E. Astle in the Logan Temple on February 7, 1941. They made their home in Providence. They were the parents of three boys.
Margarita was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She loved to serve the Lord. She served as a missionary for the church in the North Central States in 1938-39. She held many positions of service in the church. Her greatest service was in name extraction and genealogy which she did faithfully for many years. She loved to attend the temple and served as a temple typist in Logan and Salt Lake City.
She was the Secretary at Providence School from 1954 to 1977. She knew the name of every child in the school and who their parents were.
She was preceded in death by her husband David, her parents, and three sisters, Lisbeth Foerster, Dorothea F. Carlson, and Liselotte Foerster.
She is survived by her sons; Ernest D. Astle (Sylvia) Logan, Dale F. Astle (Charlotte) Providence, and John F. Astle (Diane) Providence; ten grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. We shall all miss her but are happy that she is now with her loved ones who went ahead of her.
The children would like to express appreciation to the staff of Terrace Grove and especially the staff of Alpine Hospice who provided comfort and tender loving care in the last days of her life.
Funeral services will be held at 12 noon, Tuesday August 12, 2008 at the Providence 4th Ward chapel, 155 N 100 E. Providence. . The family will be pleased to greet friends and family at the Allen-Hall Mortuary on Monday, August 11th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for a viewing and again on Tuesday from 10:30 am to 11:30 am at the church before the funeral services. Interment will follow in the Providence Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.allenmortuaries.net