William Savory, Sudie Ione Foster, and Aaron
Savory
Collection Name
Foster/Savory Collection
Inclusive Dates:
1898-2005
Physical Description
3.5 linear feet
Abstract
Contains materials pertaining to the Foster and Savory Families
of Flagstaff and Cosnino, Arizona, including property records, newspaper clippings, and
scrapbooks.
Collection Number
AHS-ND 910
Language
English
Repository
Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives
Department.
Northern Arizona University
Cline Library
P.O. Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523 5551
Fax: 928 523 3770
Email: Special.Collections@nau.edu
Biographical Note
William Lovell Savory was born in Ohio in 1916. He moved to California with his family
in the 1930s and worked for Douglas Aircraft during World War II.
Sudie Ione Foster was born in Texas in 1921. She moved to Arizona with her family, and
her father established a homestead at Cosnino, east of Flagstaff. She moved to Flagstaff
as a young adult to work for the Mountain States Telephone Company as an operator, but
quit her job when she got married.
Savory and Foster were married in 1944 and had four children: Randolph, Aaron, Kimberly
and William, Jr. They began building what is now the Twin Arrows Trading Post in 1945 on
land leased from the state of Arizona. Due to financial difficulties, however, they
never completed the building.
William worked for lumber and mining companies in Arizona and Nevada, and he held jobs
at several locations as a diesel mechanic. He moved to Kingman, Arizona after his
retirement, where he prospected for gold. Savory died in 1991.
Ione went back to work for the telephone company until the early 1960s. She died in
1995.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains materials pertaining to the Foster and Savory families,
including newspaper clippings, ancestry research, school materials, biographies, Twin
Arrows property records, deeds, certificates, and scrapbooks.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner
of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for Northern Arizona University and the
Arizona Historical Society, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all
claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
