Obituaries: Rev. Harry H. Foster, 1952, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483

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From: February 14, 1952 Winn Parish Enterprise

Rev. H. H. Foster, Native of Winn, Buried Saturday

Funeral services for Rev. Harry H. Foster, 49, pastor of the Macedonia Baptist
Church at Effie, were held last Saturday at 4 p.m. at Sardis Baptist Church
near Winnfield.  Rev. Foster was a native of Winn Parish and was well known
for his church work in the parish.

He died Friday night of a heart attack, in a local hospital, after a short
illness.

Rev. H. J. Mott, pastor of Laurel Heights Baptist Church, and Rev. J. O. James
of Olla, officiated at the funeral, with burial in Sardis Cemetery under
direction of Southern Funeral Home.

Rev. Foster was pastor of the church at Effie at the time of his death.  Other
pastorates in his ministry included New Jerusalem, which he organized and
sponsored the building of the present building; New Salem Baptist Church near
Montgomery, where he sponsored the church building; Nebo Baptist Church near
Jena, where a new educational building was built during his pastorat; Pine
Grove Baptist Church near Bastrop; and Macedonia Church at Effie.

He was an inactive member of the Masonic Lodge.

Survivors are his wife, the former Dorothy Edith Corley; one daughter, Mrs. H.
C. James of Winnfield; one son, Rev. George Foster of Kelly; two brothers,
Murphy of Winnfield and Tom of Colfax; four sisters, Mrs. E. H. Lasyone of
Verda, Mrs. Jim Lasyone of Winnfield; Mrs. Bob Barton of Mangham; and Mrs. O.
B. Leary of Rayville, and three grandsons.

Pallbearers, all ministers, were Reverends W. C. Bounds, Ernest Evans, E. B.
Barton, J. C. Smith, and R. O. Bazar.

Honorary pallbearers were Reverends Simmons, Whitford Mize, J. Norris, Raborn,
John T. Walters, Lester Rhymes, Virgil Hart, Holt, and T. T. Edmonds.