Mary Graves Foster

Published 3:55 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2015

By Staff Reports

Funeral services were held Saturday, February 7, 2015, at Prentiss Apostolic Church in Prentiss, for Mrs. Mary J. Graves Foster, age 69, who passed away on February 4, at Jefferson Davis Community Hospital in Prentiss. Interment followed at Carson Cemetery. Saulters Moore Funeral Home of Prentiss was in charge of all arrangements.

Rev. D.R. Buckley officiated. Pallbearers were Channing Redd, Bradley Gilbert, Tinker Graves, John Pendleton, Ricky Fuller and Joseph Graves.

Mary was born on March 28, 1945, in Mississippi. She was the daughter of Hulon Fuller and Ethel McNease. She worked as a homemaker and was a member of Prentiss Apostolic Church.

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She is survived by her husband, Bill Foster of Lucedale; her daughter, Jennifer Gilbert of Brandon; three sons, James Graves, Jr. of Prentiss, Steve Graves of Carson, and Jason Graves of Prentiss; two stepchildren, Janice Pope and Aaron Foster; five grandchildren; her sister, Linda Edmonds of Texas; her half-sister, Melissa Dyess of Carson.

Her parents, husband, four brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.

 

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