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Copy of customer photograph. Sepia undated portrait of a seated Mrs. Henry Foss. Agnes Hansson Foss, like her husband, was a Tacoma native. Henry Foss, in a February 6, 1966, News Tribune article paid tribute to Agnes' pioneering Norwegian family who were longtime friends of the Fosses. Agnes and Henry would start their married life in a most romantic fashion, motoring across the Sound aboard the speedboat, the Imp, to wed in a Methodist church in Gig Harbor. A June 30, 1914, article from the Marine News section of the Tacoma Daily Ledger stated that the mothers of the couple and Henry's sister-in-law were the only guests to the wedding ceremony. The speedboat had stopped at Point Defiance to take on these passengers before proceeding to Gig Harbor. The Fosses would make their first home in a cookhouse next to the Foss Launch Co. business before moving to Day Island. Agnes and Henry Foss would go on to have two children, Drew and Henrietta. The Fosses had been married for 65 years before Agnes' death at age 87 in 1979. Photograph ordered by Drew Foss for insertion into an album. (History of Pierce County, Vol. 1, p. 185, TDL 6-30-14, p. 8)
Foss, Agnes S.;