Foster, J. Frank

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J. Frank Foster Soundex Code F236

South Park Commission Superintendent, J. Frank Foster envisioned a new type of park that would provide social services as well as breathing spaces to these areas. These innovative parks provided social services as well as breathing spaces to overcrowded tenement neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side. In addition to year-round recreational facilities and social activities, the new parks offered English lessons and other educational programs, the earliest branches of the Chicago Public Library, inexpensive hot meals, free public bathing facilities, and other health services.

J. Frank Foster was married to Clara E. Foster.

Chicago Tribune, Death Notice, Wednesday, January 27, 1926, Page 22

J. Frank Foster Monday, January 25, 1926, Englewood Commandery service, at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 64th Street and Harvard Avenue. Thursday, January 28, 1926, at 2:30 p.m. Knights please assemble at Englewood Masonic Temple, 2:00 p.m.

J. Frank Foster Monday. January 25, 1926, at his residence in Washington Park. Funeral Thursday, January 28, 1926, from Pilgrim Congregational Church, 64th Street and Harvard Avenue, under the auspices of Englewood Commandery No. 59, Knights Templar. Remains will lie in state at chapel, 415 W. 63rd Street until Thursday, noon. Interment Oak Woods Cemetery.