Obituaries: Rose Foster Milling, 1972, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 21, 1973 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Area Survivors Of Mrs. Milling Are Published

Rose Foster Milling, daughter of the late Governor and United States Senator
and Mrs. Murphy J. Foster and wife of the late Judge Thomas Morgan Milling, a
native son of Winn Parish, died Thursday, June 8, 1972.

Mrs. Milling was born in 1882, the eldest of Governor and Mrs. Foster's nine
children.  She had resided in Franklin since 1948, moving from St. Maurice
Plantation, in Winn Parish.  She and her late husband, Judge Milling, were the
first family to restore St. Maurice House as he spent his boyhood days there. 
While residents there, they played important parts in getting electricity and
telephones installed in the country and rural areas.  They made many friends
while here.

Relatives survived by her are a former daughter in law, Mrs. Hardy L. Hines of
Verda; a granddaughter, Monica Milling Nutt, Montgomery; a grandson, Thomas
Morgan Milling II of Montgomery, and Mrs. Pollard Harrison of Montgomery, a
sister in law.

She is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. Rose Monroe of New Orleans and a
grandson, Andrea Hickman Milling of Franklin; one brother, six grandchildren,
and eight great grandchildren.

Services were held at the First Methodist Church at 11 a.m. Saturday.