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Visitation:
Friday, November 21, 2025, from 12 - 2 p.m. at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, IL.
Service:
Friday, November 21, 2025, at 2 p.m. at the funeral
home.
Funeral home:
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader, Lincoln
Mt. Pulaski
Obituary
Billie Jean Foster,
78, of Manhattan, IL, formerly of Lincoln, IL, and
Tinley Park, IL, passed away on Monday, November 17,
2025, at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, IL.
Billie Jean was born on November 22, 1946, in
Lincoln, IL, the daughter of Roy and Marjorie (Heinzel)
Slack.
Billie Jean is survived by her children, Tom (Carrie
Gautsche) Leith, Stacey Kabiri, and Miranda (Joseph)
Bzdyl; and her grandchildren, Noah and Henry Leith,
Nicholas and Kelsey Kabiri, and Madeline, Christian,
and Gabriel Bzdyl. She is also survived by brothers,
Lloyd Slack, Myron (Gladys Stacey) Slack, David
(Sandy) Slack, and Dan Slack; nephew, Corey; nieces,
Amber (Alexis) Rogers, Jennifer (Greg) Hennington,
Chelsie (Adam) Campbell, Kasey (Bubba) Cook, Jessie
Slack, Cara (Erik) Knecht, and Kimberly Coletto; as
well as many great-nephews and great-nieces.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her
sister-in-law, Gail Slack; her nephew, Christopher
Slack; her great-niece, Isabella Cook; and her
friend, Jeannie Winebrinner.
Billie Jean was a cook at Tinley Park Mental Center
and the Lincoln Development Center throughout her
career and loved volunteering at My Joyful Heart in
Mokena, IL. She was also an avid painter, loved
going to church, and studying the Bible. |
She greatly enjoyed
traveling abroad and to small-town midwestern
wineries, especially with friends, Sandy and
Shirley, and spending as much time as possible with
her immediate and extended family. Her grandchildren
were the light in her eyes, and there was nothing
she wouldn’t do for them. Her quick-wit, sass, love
of a good time, and ability to find joy and humor in
most any situation will never be forgotten.
Services for Billie Jean will be held at 2:00pm on
Friday, November 21, 2025, at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln, IL.
Visitation will take place two hours prior to the
service (12:00 pm - 2:00 pm) also at the funeral
home. Burial will follow the services at New Union
Cemetery in Lincoln, IL. Memorial donations may be
made in Billie Jean’s name to My Joyful Heart in
Mokena, IL, (9981 W. 190th Street Suite I-J Mokena,
IL, 60448).
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