HOUSTON — Services for Dorothy Mae Foster, 81, who died Thursday Feb. 11, 2010, at the Memorial Herman Southeast Hospital, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Milford Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Eddie Alsworth officiating.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery under the direction of Robert D. Mackel and Sons Funeral Home of Houston.

Visitation will be from noon to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Dorothy Mae Foster was born on April 27, 1928, in Adams County, the daughter of the late Clarence Henry and the late Evelyn Henry.

She was a member of Milford Missionary Baptist Church for more than 70 years. For approximately 50 years she taught the junior class in Sunday school in addition to numerous Vacation Bible School classes.

For more than 50 years, she was an active member of the Edna Anderson Chapter No. 11, Order of the Eastern Star and was a member of the Evelyn Lilly K. Armaranth Court No. 3, Heroines of the ADA Grand Chapter, Alkoran Court No. 1 Daughter of the Sphinx of the Order of Easter Star, Start of Bethlehem Lodge No. 9 Good Samarian, the Milford and Linwood Societies Homemakers Club and the 4-H Club.

Mrs. Foster was president of the Jefferson County Parent Teacher Association for 12 years and was a part of the Partnership for a Healthier Mississippi “Reaching Out to Kids,” a grant designed to educate youth on the risks of smoking.

She was employed with the George’s Ladies Apparel for 22 years.

Mrs. Foster was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Floyd B. Foster; and one son, Floyd Gilbert Foster.

Survivors include one son, Edgar Foster and his wife, Jacqueline Foster, of Pittsburgh; two daughters Lula Hortman of Pittsburgh and Roxie McKinney of Houston; six grandchildren, Kisha Hawthorn of Berlin, N.J., Lamar Hortman, of District Heights, Md., Erica Foster, of Miami, Kristopher Hortman, of Willoughby, Ohio, Chantel McKinney, of Tallahassee, Fla. and Jakiya Foster, of Pittsburgh; one great-grandchild Aidan Hortman, of District Heights, Md.; two brothers, Clarence Henry, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Earl Henry, of New Orleans; two sisters, Thelma Henry and Evelyn Henry Smith, both of Natchez; one godchild April Harris Surles, of Plano, Texas; sergeant son, Roosevelt Marsaw of Natchez and a number of relatives and friends.