Lincoln County TN Archives Obituaries.....Foster, William R. May 9, 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dwight Winsett dwinsett@nmol.com September 29, 2005, 4:01 pm Lincoln County News - May 16, 1940 Foster Rites for William R. Foster, aged 73 years, retired rural mail carrier, who died at his home in Petersburg Thursday after a brief illness were conducted Friday afternoon at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by Rev. Vaughn Fults, assisted by Rev. D. B. Smith. He was the son of John R. Foster and Mary Nichols Foster, an elder in the Petersburg Presbyterian Church for a number of years and had been active in church work until recently. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Tula Smith Foster; one son Floyd Foster, of Indianapolis; a daughter, Mrs. Lee Pat Hastings, of Petersburg; three grandchildren, Billy, Jack and Charles Hastings; three brothers, Newton J. Foster, of Shelbyville; Alton Foster, of Salem, Ind., and Golie A. Foster, of Petersburg; several nieces and nephews. Burial was in Old Orchard Cemetery. Lincoln County News - May 16, 1940 Additional Comments: From: Petersburg: A People's History by Dwight Winsett (c) 1994 Permission is hereby granted to reproduce the following material in any manner, except for resale. Except where noted, all material was taken from issues of the Lincoln County News. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/lincoln/obits/f/foster64nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/tnfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb