The love Foy shared lives on. love you Foy Justice.  "Growing old ain't for sissies!" :)

I didn't see this photo in the Memorial. Someone posted it on FB after Yvonne passed.  I love it!!

Dear Foy makes me smile just thinking about his voice, laugh, and positive attitude.

Here is a photo of Edward "Trey" Clifton, Foy, Nancy Clifton, Yvonne, Maria and Henry Cantu at the Austin Bahai Center (around 2009 I believe).

This is a screenshot from the video interview that Foy and Yvonne did with Nicolai and I fixed some audio for him.  I have the full files if anyone would like them.  I Love and Miss the Justices so much ... they were the changer of lives and passed that on to so many <3

We loved Foy and Yvonne so much! Here's a photo I took back in May 2006 of them with John Conkling at the Baha'i Center in Austin. Notice he's wearing the famous bolo tie!


Nineteen Days Feasts, always loving, always positive and filled with stories that  were uplifting! 

Will always remember Foy for his love of our beloved Baha'i faith, his most wonderful wife Yvonne and his lovely family.  He was always a joy to see with his spirit and wit so high and contagious, even when he was not feeling the best!  I loved him dearly and he is missed.

I met Foy in the fall of 1971 right when I joined the Baha'i Community of Austin, Texas.  He and Yvonne were like "parents" to what seemed like a fairly large number of us college age Baha'is.  We often sat on the floor at the 19 Day Feast, and I remember the little inspirational talks that Foy would present along with his Treasurer's Report.  He never seemed to at a loss for words or to be boring.  He was very spiritual and down to earth at the same time.  I enjoyed learning from him.  I remember being so glad to find such a man as Foy in the Baha'i Community!   He was manly enough to be a true Texas and pure-hearted and sweet enough to be loveable to just about anybody, and he loved Baha'u'llah!   May he find happiness in his reunion with Yvonne and his other family members, and may his many years of faithful service never be forgotten.  

I met Foy in the mid-1970s at SMU when he was co-facilitating  people to be trainers for the National Spiritual Assembly's first program on Local Spiritual Assembly development. The course was a 30 hour program with videos and a huge box containing  the video equipment the trainers would take with them and use during their presentations to various Local Assemblies. Bob and I were so happy to meet Foy and get to know him (and later his wife Yvonne) and their grandchildren, at many Texas Baha'i Summer Schools over the years.

My spiritual father, Foy, and spiritual mother, Yvonne, simply loved me into the Faith in 1977 at their home.   It was my second fireside and the first time I met them.  Their love and support meant the world to me and changed the world for me. 

Before our first game of rowdy cards I remember asking Curtis Doss what kind of card gave it was. Foy told him "the only rule is that you keep one foot on the ground at all times." Then we started playing with the Hutchcrafts, the Justices, the Haidarians, the Betancourts. Everyone talking trash to their spouse/partner in their own language: Spanish, English, Farsi, Portuguese.  Dear Mary Bullard would do her best to calm us all down.  But we all kept one foot on the ground at all times. We knew the rule. Wonderful memories of Foy and Yvonne and their stories of their early years, their middle years, all the wonderful years they shared.  We love you all!  Thanks for the wonderful memories!!!


I knew Foy and Yvonne  for some forty years and if anything, their radiant spirits grew day by day.  Foy was a genuine "solid citizen" and a truly wonderful human being.  Along with Yvonne, he created an atmosphere of exuberance, joy, peace and inclusiveness that was felt by all. There is really too much to tell; so many positive snippets of memories.

They were of the second generation of Bahá'ís - those who took the bare beginnings  of the Faith in Texas, brought by the legendary Anna Reinke and from such humble beginnings built the foundations of the large and thriving communities that we have in Texas today. While in distant centuries the names of this valiant cadre may fade, the result of their efforts will forever live in the strong and enduring edifice that they helped to raise. 

Foy and Yvonne, along with such humble and constant souls as Neena Habits, Chris and Catherine Gent, and Nancy and Gordon Dobbins, are the forefathers in whose footsteps all of the rest of us follow. We will be forever blessed by their joyous presence and  the product of their lives of devoted service in the path of God.

OBITUARY

William Foy Justice Jr.

February 17, 1924 – January 1, 2021

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