Rev. Sawyer C. Foister

November 06, 1924 - January 16, 2012

Rev. Sawyer C. Foister, 87 of Pineville, passed away on Monday, January 16, 2012 at the Pineville Community Hospital. He was born on November 6, 1924 a son of the late Jim and Ollie Wagner Foister. He was a resident of Mountain View Nursing Home in Pineville, KY. He served as an evangelist and pastor for 24 years and had been a hard working truck driver. He believed in the Baptist faith and was a member of New Hope Baptist Church. He was a World War II Veteran and served his country in Belgium, Germany and France. Sawyer was a loving husband, father and grandfather.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife of 42 years and the mother of his children, Mollie Lovell Foister; his second wife of 15 years, Johnnie Sprinkles Foister; brothers, Millard Foister, Luther Benny Foister; sister, Lucy Elliot, Pearlie Jewel King; grandson, Adam Boyd Gambrel; great-grandson, Thomas Jordan Manis.
He is survived by his sons and their wife’s, Donald Ray and Patty Foister of Middlesboro; Millard James and Sheila Foister of Danville; daughters and their husbands, Delphia and Boyd, Jr. Gambrel of Pineville; Norma Jean Freels of New Tazewell, TN; Luann and Carl Manis of Speedwell, TN; grandchildren, Alan Gambrel, Craig, Donnie and Tammy Foister, James, Jennifer, Josh, Jessica Mollie Foister, Sherry Freels Mitchell, Donna Freels Fuson, Carla Manis Caldwell, Carl Manis, Jr.; and 27 great-grandchildren; sister, Iva lee Wilkerson and a host of friends, loves ones, neighbors and brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Funeral Information

Services will be 2 PM Saturday at the Arnett & Steele Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Boyd Gray, Rev. Bill Engle, Jr. and Rev. Rev. David Asher. Music will be by Roger and Kathy Manis. Burial will follow in the Green Hills Memorial Gardens with family and friends serving as pallbearers.
The family will receive friends from 6 until 9 PM Friday at the Arnett & Steele Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Pineville, which is honored to serve the Foister family. Light a virtual candle or sign the guest register at www.arnettsteele.com