Robert Foster

Published 2:51 pm Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Funeral service for Robert W. Foster will be 11 a.m., Friday, November 6, 2020, at New Sight Baptist Church with interment at New Sight Cemetery. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m., Thursday, November 5, at New Sight Baptist Church.

Mr. Robert Lee Walter “Skeet” Foster, 85, of Brookhaven, passed from this life November 3, 2020, at his residence. He was born June 1, 1935, to the late Robert Lee Foster and Elena Price Foster. He attended Fair Oak Springs School and went on to serve his country in the United States Navy. Mr. Foster made an honest living as a truck driver and was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

He is preceded in death by his parents; son, Walter Patrick Foster; grandchild, Shelby L. Foster; and brother-in-law, Harold Smith.

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Those left to cherish his memory are his wife, Roena Davis Foster; sons, Robert Curtis “Bobby” Foster and wife, Brenda, of Brookhaven, Daniel Christepher Foster and wife, Susan, of Brandon, Stacey Lee Foster and wife, Tillie, of Wesson; daughter, Angelia Sue Foster Ross and husband, Jason, of Wiggins; brothers, Wayne Foster and wife, Virginia of Bogue Chitto, Derrall Foster and wife Linda, of Sontag, Jerry Foster and wife, Bonnie, of Colorado, Thomas Foster, of Brookhaven; sisters, Francis Smith, of Brookhaven, and Kathyrn McDonald, of Baton Rouge. He also leaves behind nine grandchildren, Dustin Foster and wife, Emily, Jennifer Cothran and husband, Tyler, Madison Foster, Hunter Foster, Kelsie Foster, Kaylie Foster, Foster Ross, Eli Ross, and Ryan Ross; and one great-grandchild, Emma Reese Foster; as well as other loving family members and friends.

Condolences and other information are available online at www.riverwoodfamily.com.