08/21/2026
Susan Butts Foster, age 78, died Friday, August 14, 2026, in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, of Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer which she had been fighting since 2020. A celebration of life will be held this fall with more details to follow. There will be a private burial of her ashes in the family grave plat at Rest Haven Cemetery, Monroe, Georgia.Ms. Foster, a native of Monroe, was born on April 18, 1948, at St. Mary's Hospital in Athens, Georgia, to the late Joel Bernard and Florence Schou Butts. She graduated with honors from Monroe Area Public Schools and was active in athletics (basketball and tennis), cheerleading and other social and academic clubs at Monroe Area High School. She served as an officer of her class, Captain of the Cheerleaders, a Senior Superlative, Miss Homecoming, Varsity basketball player for four years on Monroe's successful Women's basketball team and was a member of Monroe Area High School's first varsity tennis team.She attended Brenau College in Gainesville as a freshman and transferred from there to the University of Georgia, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics Education. She was an active member of Phi Mu Sorority. Upon graduation, Susan taught High School Mathematics for Fulton County School System at Riverwood High School. In 1978, she began her successful 22-year work career at Southern Bell and AT&T during which time she also successfully earned a Masters of Science degree in the College of Management and Business at Nation-Louis University while working full time. She continued her career as a management consultant at other companies in the Atlanta area (including TRX, SITA, AIG Insurance, Cox Communications and AT&T) developing Quality Management Systems, Internal Auditing Programs, and Process Management Infrastructures. She retired in 2014, with 37 years of total work experience.Hobbies include tennis, pickleball, exercising, reading, water sports/boating, time by the pool and traveling to the beach with family and friends. Charitable work included successfully leading a team of women for 15 years to raise money to provide mammograms to uninsured women through the Northside Hospital Foundation. Susan and her teams were consistently top fundraisers year after year for the entire Atlanta area.She is survived by a sister, Barbara (Mark) Beardsley of Commerce, GA; her children, Jennifer (Preston) Stevens and Joel (Alston) Foster; and grandchildren, all of whom reside in Atlanta, GA.In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Northside Hospital Foundation https://give.northside.com
