Mrs. Joann Love Foster, a resident of Manchester Pike in Murfreesboro, passed away on Monday, November 24, at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro.
Funeral services for Mrs. Foster will be conducted Saturday at 3:00 P.M .in the chapel of Williams Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant with Bro. Randy McNeese officiating. Burial will follow in Arlington Cemetery.
The family will visit with friends on Friday from 4:00 – 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home.
Born April 10, 1930, in Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Althea Satterfield Love. She was the wife of Gene Foster, Sr., of Murfreesboro whom she married on June 1, 1952. She was a graduate of Hay Long High School in Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. Foster was a homemaker and a partner with her husband in the American Termite Company. She was raised in the First Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant.
Joann loved to dance. She and Gene could be found dancing the night away at The Bull Pen in Nashville or the Moose in Murfreesboro.
In addition to her husband, survivors include one son: Gene Sandy Foster, Jr., of Summertown; grandchildren: Tim Foster, Jr., of Murfreesboro, Jimmie Foster of Lewisburg and Stephen Foster of Mt. Pleasant, Mich.; 9 great-grandchildren; one brother, Richard Love of San Antonio, TX and one sister: Carole Hendrix of San Antonio, TX. She was preceded in death by a son: Richard Timothy Foster and one grandson: Brian Foster Shultz, 10 brothers and sisters and a beloved canine companion, Benji.
Pallbearers will be Tim Foster, Jr., Jimmie Foster III, Stephen Foster, Bill Love, Jr., Drew Love, Thomas Jones, Jr., and Jason Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Walter Marlin, Joe "Sonny" Roddy, and students of the Foster Wado Dojo Karate School.