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Stephanie Foster Of Water Mill Dies On June 9 At Age of 39.

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East Hampton's Turner Foster is the returning county champion. NICHOLAS SERRATA

East Hampton's Turner Foster is the returning county champion. NICHOLAS SERRATA East Hampton's Turner Foster removes the chip from the ball on the 6th green during Round 1 of the NYSPHSAA at Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Ithaca, NY. Nck Serrata - The East Hampton/Southampton Press

author on Jun 18, 2012

Stephanie Lee Foster

Stephanie Lee Foster of Wind Gap, Pennsylvania, and Water Mill died suddenly at her home in Pennsylvania on Saturday, June 9, from a severe asthma attack. She was 39.

Born on December 2, 1972, to Linda and Leonard Foster of Water Mill, Ms. Foster was a graduate of Southampton High School and East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, with a degree in special education. She continued her studies to obtain a master’s degree, also in special education, with an emphasis on teaching children with autism.

She worked for the Youth Advocacy Program, which specialized in teaching students with autism, during the school day and provided home services to students after school. Shortly thereafter, she became a full time teacher for Colonial Intermediate in Easton, Pennsylvania, but continued to work for YAP, her first love. She was an active member of Autism Speaks and was always looking for and thinking of new and inventive ways to teach and help her special children. Ms. Foster’s love and dedication for her students will live on in their lives, survivors said. Even after her death, she continued to give by being an organ donor.

She is survived by her parents, Linda Casparsen Foster and Leonard Monroe Foster; a sister Nichole Foster; a brother Kevin Foster; grandmothers, Katherine Casparsen and Doris Foster; aunts, uncles, cousins, and her niece, Meredith, who she adored. The family received friends Thursday, June 14, and Friday, June 15, at O’Connell Funeral Home. A funeral took place at the funeral home on Saturday, June 16, in which the Reverend Monsignor Jeff Madley officiated. She was interred at Sacred Hearts Roman Catholic Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Autism Speaks, www.autismspeaks.org, would be appreciated by the family.

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