
Granville Simonds Foss


Granville Simonds Foss Granville Simonds Foss spent his adult life in textile manufacturing and marketing, first for his family company, Brightwood Manufacturing, and starting in the 1920s for J. P. Stevens & Co. New York, where he went from working in the mills to the executive suite. He had attended Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts, from which he received the equivalent of a G.E.D. The war stopped college, and when that hurdle was cleared, Brightwood Manufacturing was on the rocks and he had to go right to work. Upon petition for cause by his sons in 1987, Berkshire awarded him an unqualified diploma.
Mr. Foss married widowed Elizabeth Macdonald Lesher in 1936, and brought her and her four-year-old son Robert, to his new home in Chappaqua, New York
. After retirement from J.P.Stevens, he recruited for the International Executive Service Corp, and finally was recruited himself to help South Korea develop their textile industry. He and wife Betty spent six months north of Seoul completing that project. In 1976 they moved to an "saltbox with shed" just off Main Street in Litchfield, Connecticut, where they spent their remaining years when not traveling throughout Europe. He was born on 13 October 1898 at 220 Newburg St., Cambridge, Mass.. He was the son of
Granville Edward Foss II and
Hattie Crosby Simonds. Granville Simonds Foss Stepson Robert Gordon Lesher in 1937. He married
Elizabeth Gordon Macdonald, daughter of
Henry Gordon Macdonald and
Elsie Ann Hastings, on 3 April 1937 at 2 Bacon Ct., Sagamore Rd., Bronxville, NY. Granville Simonds Foss died on 13 January 1992 at Beecher Lane, Litchfield, Conn, 06759, at age 93.