{"id":2951,"date":"2011-11-22T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?page_id=2951"},"modified":"2023-11-28T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T01:12:40","slug":"national-pomona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/national-pomona\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pomona"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"width: 28.4798%;\" scope=\"row\" width=\"120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80284 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Pomona-Foster-Barbara.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 71.4011%; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;\">\n<h3><strong>Barbara Foster<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">National Grange Pomona<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">National Grange of the Order<br \/>\nof the Patrons of Husbandry<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"text-align: justify; width: 99.8809%;\" colspan=\"2\" scope=\"row\">\n<p>Barbara Foster of Pennsboro, West Virginia, was elected as National Grange Pomona at the 157<sup>th<\/sup> Annual National Grange Convention in 2023.Barbara is the only daughter of Earlene &amp; Jim Foster, former West Virginia State Grange President and National Grange Chaplain. She has three brothers. She was born in Tennessee, bu grew up an \u201cAir Force military brat\u201d living in Delaware, South Carolina, Taiwan, and Japan before Jim retired and bought a farm in West Virginia, where they have lived for 49 years.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara joined the Grange in 1985, and is a member of Oxford Community Grange #526 and Central State Pomona Grange. She has held several offices at the community, Pomona, and State levels. The Fosters were Grange Family of the Year in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara is retired as a full-time teacher after 32 years, and a total of 44 years in education. She taught home economics and elementary students with learning disabilities. She is the former President (20+ years) of the West Virginia Professional Educators\u2019 Association and works with the Doddridge County Community Education Outreach.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her other involvement, Barbara is a retired member of the Pennsboro Volunteer Fire Department Ladies\u2019 Auxiliary, and a member of the Pt. Pleasant Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, and the South Side Baptist Church, where she is the assistant treasurer. She enjoys sewing &amp; quilting and reading, and lives with her two dogs, Max &amp; Ellie, and three cats, Strips, Frisky, &amp; Runt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Foster National Grange Pomona National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry Barbara Foster of Pennsboro, West Virginia, was elected as National Grange Pomona at the 157th Annual National Grange Convention in 2023.Barbara is the only daughter of Earlene &amp; Jim Foster, former West Virginia State Grange President and National Grange Chaplain. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/national-pomona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Pomona&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1803,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Pomona - The National Grange<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/national-pomona\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Pomona - The National Grange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barbara Foster National Grange Pomona National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry Barbara Foster of Pennsboro, West Virginia, was elected as National Grange Pomona at the 157th Annual National Grange Convention in 2023.Barbara is the only daughter of Earlene &amp; 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