Kenneth E. Foster

Mr. Kenneth E. Foster, age 74 of Blairsville, GA, passed away Saturday, August 23, 2008 at Union General Hospital. Mr. Foster was born Wednesday, May 9, 1934 in Union County GA to the late Lewis Parker Foster and the late Willie Marie Galloway Foster. He was a member of Mt. Pleasant #1 Baptist Church. Mr. Foster retired from the U.S. Air Force after 24 years having served in both Korea and Vietnam. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lewis Parker and Willie Marie Galloway Foster; sisters, Carmen, Clella and Evelyn Foster; son, Mitchell Gregory Foster; and grandson, Jerrod Elisha Shook.

Survivors include: wife, Nita Cordell Foster, son and daughter-in-law, Steve and Linda Foster, daughter and son-in-law, Debbie Anita and Tim Odom, daughter, Dianna Foster and sister, Regina Patterson, all of Blairsville, GA, brother, Kermit Foster of Birmingham, AL, brothers, Keith Foster and Keiter Foster, sister, Reba Sosebee, brother, Kendall Foster and sister, Renette Foster, all of Blairsville, GA, granddaughter, Wendy Marie Snipe, grandsons, Joshua Harold Shook, David Lewis Foster and Kyle Mitchell Odom and granddaughter and husband, Krista Anita and Chris Fox.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM from the Chapel of the Cochran Funeral Home with the Rev. Kenny Beavers and Rev. Harold Underwood officiating. Music will be provided by the Faith Singers and Kent Foster. Interment will follow in Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers are: Bill Floyd, Charles Hughes, Parker Foster, Doug Hughes, Roger Owenby, Kent Foster, Ralph Gillespie and Mark McGillis.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 4-9 PM, Monday, August 26, 2008.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The Cochran Funeral Home of Blairsville, Georgia is in charge of arrangements.