Obituary
WEST POINT Louise Foster Millsaps, 73, died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1998, at the Clay County Medical Center as the result of an automobile accident. She was born in Houston to Earley Quincey and Evelyn Smith Foster. She moved to Clay County in 1938. She was a homemaker and a retired machine operator for Big Yank Corp. and Knickerbocker Manufacturing of West Point. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Charles Whitney and the Rev. James S. Young officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Bluff Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, S.L. “Red” Millsaps of West Point, whom she married Sept. 29, 1944; one daughter, Beth M. Brantley of West Point; two sons, Earley Hiram Millsaps and Randy Alvin Millsaps, both of West Point; 12 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; three brothers, Earley S. Foster and Thomas Gid Foster, both of Pheba, and James C. Foster of West Point.
Pallbearers will be Ray Brantley, Lawrence Brantley, Chuck Millsaps, Thomas Millsaps, Mike Cummings, Jack Bobo and Jim Aust.
Honorary pallbearers will be Alexander Millsaps, Samuel Millsaps, Wesley Millsaps, Dr. Edmund A. Miller, Dr. H.L. Flowers, Dr. Andrew Wartak, Silver Thin Hair Men’s Sunday School Class at Calvary Baptist Church, West End Baptist Brotherhood, the staff of Clay County Medical Center, and the West Point/Clay County Ambulance Service.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.
Published in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on January 21, 1998.