Bobby Foster

Bobby Junior Foster, 77, of Junction City, GA, died Monday, October 7, 2013, at Gentiva Hospice in Columbus, GA.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00PM on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at New Life Baptist Church with Reverend A. R. Curlee and Reverend Jimmy Stubbs officiating. Music will be provided by Jeff Morrow and Silas Fuller.  Burial will follow the service in the church cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Ronald Lackey, Gary Barker, Wendell Henderson, Terry Lackey, Blake Lackey and Timothy Barker. Honorary pallbearers will be Danny Kent, Joe Smith, William Blair, and Joey Smith. The family will receive friends at New Life Baptist Church on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, from 6:00-8:00 PM

Mr. Foster was born August 25, 1936, in Tifton, GA, to Robert Drane and Danty Florence Barrett Foster. Baptist by faith, he was a member of New Life Baptist Church and had been living in the area all of his life. He was employed as a truck driver. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Shirley Arnold and a granddaughter, Donna Barker.

He is survived by his wife, Myrtice O’Hearn Foster of Junction City, GA; by three daughters, Patsy and Wendell Henderson of Junction City, GA, Vickie and Ronald Lackey of Munford, AL, and Rhonda and Gary Barker of Talladega, AL; a brother, Jimmy and Doris Wheat; two sisters, Dianne and Roland Troublefield and Geraldine and Randy Williford, all of DeFuniak Springs, FL; three grandchildren, Terry Lackey, Timothy and Jamie Barker, and Blake and Jill Lackey; two sisters-in-law, Irene Clendening of Dalton, GA, and Ann and Randall Roberts of Rockface, GA; three brothers-in-law, Ray and Lily O’Hearn of Phenix City, AL, David Arnold of Upatoi, GA, and Bobby and Kathy O’Hearn of Buena Vista, GA; and three great-great grandchildren, Cassidy Lackey, Emily Barker and Ella Barker.

Watson-Tante Funeral Home of Buena Vista, Georgia, was in charge of these arrangements.