Obituaries: Elizabeth Pyburn Foster, 1954, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483

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From: March 18, 1954

Former Winn Woman Dies In Jonesboro Sun.

Mrs. Elizabeth Pyburn Foster, 67, native of Winn Parish and member of a
prominent pioneer Dodson family, died Sunday morning in a Jonesboro hospital
after a long illness.

Funeral services were in Jonesboro Monday at 2:30 p.m. with burial in the
Jonesboro Cemetery.

Mrs. Foster was born in Gansville community in Ward Four of Winn Parish, and
lived in Dodson for a number of years.  She was a graduate of Louisiana Tech
in music.

Surviving are her husband, E. S. Foster of Jonesboro; five daughters, Nadine
of Jonesboro, Mrs. Nedra Odom, Mrs. John C. Allen, Mrs. Joe White, all of
Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Gordon Allen of Shreveport; two sons, E. S. Foster, Jr.,
of Jonesboro, and Neal Foster of Dallas, Texas; 10 grandchildren; three
sisters, Miss Helen Pyburn of Hammond, Miss Mary Sue Pyburn of Ruston, Miss
Nita Pyburn of Tallahassee, Florida; four brothers, Dwight Pyburn of
Shreveport, Dewitt Pyburn of Baton Rouge, Hiram Pyburn of Ruston, and Keith
Pyburn of Washington, D. C.