Barney Foster

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Services for Barney Foster, of Brookhaven, will be held at 2p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 23, at Riverwood Family Funeral ServiceChapel with burial in Easthaven Cemetery.

Visitation is Tuesday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Foster, 85, died Jan. 21, 2008, at Haven Hall Health CareCenter. He was born on Nov. 12, 1922, to Eugene “Jennie” Foster andVianiar Laird Foster.

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He was retired from the oil industry. He became a Christian as ateenager by obeying the gospel and being baptized at Johnson GroveChurch of Christ. He was also a Mason and member of the EasternStar.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his first wife, LoisWolfe; his brother, Horace Foster; and his sisters, Ruthie FosterSmith and Lucy Foster Hammons

Survivors are his wife, Bettie D. Hoggatt Foster, of Brookhaven;his stepdaughter, Barbara Hoggatt Tisdale and husband Glenn, ofDothan, Ala.; his brother, Homer Foster, of Cullman, Ala.; hissister, Audrey N. Foster Watts, of Brookhaven; and a number ofnieces and nephews.