James Lewis

Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 27, 2009

JACKSON — Services for James Foster Lewis, who died Thursday, June 25, 2009, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel.

Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Greelawn Cemetery under the direction of Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home of Jackson.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time Sunday at the funeral home.

Mr. Foster was a native of Pike County and a former resident of Natchez. He was a graduate of Southwest Junior College in Summit; the University of Mississippi and the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Mr. Foster, a World War II veteran, served his country in the United States Army. He was a member of the Jefferson Street United Methodist Church in Natchez and attended the First Baptist Church of Jackson where he sang in the sanctuary choir. As a pharmacist, he served his community at the Gilbert’s Drug Store in Natchez and for Walmart pharmacies in the Jackson area. He enjoyed fishing, traveling, square dancing /clogging and was an avid gardener. Mr. Foster was a member of the Metropolitan Supper Club.

Mr. Foster was preceded in death by his wife, Yvette Murrell Lewis and a sister, Myrtle Lewis Barron.

Survivors include his wife, Lillian W. Lewis of Brandon; three sons, Van Laney Lewis, M.D. and wife, Ruth Elizabeth Henderson Lewis, both of Roanoke, Va., Dwight Eugene Lewis of Jackson and Neal Patrick Lewis and wife, Andrea G. Lewis, both of Vicksburg; one sister, Peggy Ann Felder of McComb; four grandchildren and two step grandchildren, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Kathryn Alexander Lewis and Benjamin Foster Lewis, all of Roanoke, Laney Patrick Lewis, Brittney Pigg and Rebecca Pigg, all of Vicksburg.

The family prefers memorials be made to the First Baptist Church of Jackson Sanctuary Choir Fund.

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