Mabron Foust

The funeral service for retired Henry County Highway Department general foreman and former car salesman Mabron Foust of Paris was scheduled at 2 p.m. today at Ridgeway Funeral Home.

Trent Bullock, Jimmy Williams and Jerry MeCaskey were to officiate. Burial was to follow in Memorial Cemetery.

Named as pallbearers were Garrett and Will Foust, Austin Buffington, Scott Stookey and Tyler and Eric Boyd.

Honorary pallbearers were Marshall Foust, Matt Evans and members of the Friendship Sunday school class at First Baptist Church.

Visitation was Sunday and today.

Foust, 87, died Friday, May 31, 2013, at his residence.

His wife, Emily Enoch Foust, survives. They were married on June 19, 1948.

Born in Henry on Nov. 8, 1925, he was the son of the late Thomas Noel and Lela Bunn Foust.

Foust was a member of First Baptist Church and a World War II U.S. Navy veteran. He was a former member of the Paris Kiwanis Club. As a member of the Henry County Fair Board, the Fair book was dedicated to him one year. He was a former car salesman for many years and retired after 27 years with the Henry County Highway Department as a general foreman.

Besides his wife, he leaves one daughter: Lori (Jerry) MeCaskey of Alton, Ill.; three sons: Johnny M. (Kay) Foust, Charles L. (Janice) Foust and Tommy E. (Amy) Foust, all of Paris;

Sixteen grandchildren: Cindy (Scott) Stookey, Allison Scott and fiancé Matt Evans, Marshall (Lindsay) Foust, Garrett, Will and Katie Foust, Emily, Tyler and Eric Boyd, Emily, Kathryn and Lyle MeCaskey, Heather Bell, Raychel (Jonathan) Carver, Ryan (Kasey) Muench and Andy Mitchell;

Eleven great-grandchildren: Courtney, Natalie and Luke Stookey, Austin Buffington, Amber Scott, Alex and Cassidy Evans, Annabelle Foust, Cooper and Caroline Carver and Alysia Sweeton; and special friends: Milfred Doyle and Gene Anderson.

Memorials may be made to the Friendship Sunday school class, First Baptist Church, 313 N. Poplar St., Paris.

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