James Clinton Foster of Bermuda Dunes, a former president of the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades, died January 11 of small-cell carcinoma. He was 74. Born in Detroit, Foster served in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer. He married Jane Bender on December 23, 1955, in Toledo, Ohio. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University Law School, he was a partner at Traxler and Traxler in Century City before starting his own private practice. “My parents lived in Bel Air for 30 years and Brentwood for another 15 years before retiring to Palm Springs,” said their daughter, Virginia Plavec of Pacific Palisades. “They spent every weekend at the Bel-Air Bay Club playing bridge and doing the crossword puzzle in their cabana.” In addition to his wife and daughter, Foster is survived by a second daughter, Barbara Schnieders of Trabuco Canyon; his sister, Enid Tovy of Houston; and four grandchildren: Jimmy, Johnny, Hailey and Russell.
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