Claudia Ann Foreman

Claudia Foreman Passed away peacefully in Kindred Hospital in Arlington on September 5, 2023 with her husband Charles at her side. She died at age eighty-eight from complications of pneumonia. Claudia was born in 1935 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Edward Earl Scatterday and Helen Weiler Scatterday. Claudia’s parents divorced when she was very young and Helen later married John Carichner.

Claudia went to school in in Pittsburgh through the ninth grade. In 1950 the Carichner family moved to Fort Worth where Claudia’s stepfather, John, became one of the early employees at the new Bell Helicopter plant. Claudia attended Amon Carter Riverside High School in Fort Worth and graduated in 1953. She immediately went to work as a secretary for Mid Continent Oil Company in downtown Fort Worth and later was a secretary in an accounting firm. Claudia married shortly after high school and was divorced several years later. She had no children.

In her late twenties she decided to go to college, and received her BA degree in English from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She became a high school English teacher and taught for about fifteen years at Grand Prairie High School and Grand Prairie South High School. Claudia liked teaching and enjoyed working with her students. In her thirties Claudia decide to go back to college, and she earned her Master’s Degree in English from UTA.

Claudia and Charles met on a ski club trip to Winter Park, Colorado in 1980. They had a couple of dates after that trip, but Claudia wasn’t too interested. About three months later Claudia’s car was vandalized, all of the windows were broken out. Claudia was distraught and needed help so she called Charles, and “the rest is history.” They started dating and got married on June 27, 1981. Claudia and Charles had no children.

They continued to ski each winter and in about 1998 they bought a townhouse in Silverthorne, Colorado, near four ski areas. They drove to Colorado each winter and summer and continued to ski into their seventies. Claudia really enjoyed and was proud of her Colorado townhouse. Claudia also started playing tennis shortly after her marriage to Charles. She played ladies doubles tennis with a group of friends until she was about eighty. Claudia and Charles liked to travel and made several trips to points of interest in the US. They made only two international trips, one to England and one great trip to Florence, Rome, and Pizza in Italy.

Claudia was a life-long Methodist and she and Charles joined New World United Methodist Church in about 1997. They both became choir members and Claudia sang in the choir for about ten years.

Claudia was an active member of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). This year was her 49th year of membership. She had hoped to make it fifty. She valued her many long-time friends in AAUW.

Claudia had a thirty-five year association with the Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth, starting in 1985. The Foundation sponsors and organizes the Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions. Claudia was volunteer usher, Assistant Usher Chairman, and then Usher Chairman for the competitions. She was Usher Chairman for the International Competition for Outstanding Amateurs held from 1997 through 2011 in Landreth Hall at TCU. She had responsibility for recruiting, training, scheduling, and supervising 60 ushers for the week-long events held in May every four years. Of all of her volunteer work and positions over the years, Claudia was most proud of her work and association with the Cliburn Foundation.

Claudia had excellent organizational and leadership skills which she demonstrated that in the organizations to which she belonged. In the neighborhood that Charles and Claudia live in there was an active neighborhood association and a “Transplants” women’s club. Claudia was very active in both for over thirty years.

Claudia is survived by her husband Charles, her sister Laurie Meacham, Laurie’s husband Randy and their two sons Sean and Cameron, and her cousin Don Weiler and his wife Jana. She was preceded in death by her mother, father, and step-father. She will be buried in a family plot in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A memorial service for Claudia will be held on Tuesday, September 19 at 2:00 PM at New World United Methodist Church in Arlington

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