Forester, Lois Broom (Rock Spring)

  • Monday, February 20, 2017
Lois Forester
Lois Forester

Lois Broom Forester, 96, of Rock Spring, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, February 20, 2017 in a local health care facility.

Mrs. Forester was born in Chattooga County, on June 8, 1920, to the late Joseph M. and Nancy Naomi Broom and has resided in the Rock Spring area for several years. She was a member of Center Grove Baptist Church where she loved to sing in the choir. She also loved teaching Sunday school and helping with the church’s A.W.A.N.A. program. She loved traveling with the senior group from her church and was an avid Georgia Bulldog fan. She was a homemaker and was a godly example to her children and family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph M. and Nancy Naomi Atkins Broom, her husband, Arthur Elbert Forester, brothers, Joe Broom, Hill Broom, sisters, Sally Hudson, Jessie Tittle, Mattie Mae Gilreath, and Boots Brown.

Survivors include her sons, Steven “Randy” (Sally) Forrester, Richard “Rick” Forester, daughter, Sarah Forester Richardson, grandchildren, Steven (Elizabeth) Forrester, Andrew Forrester, Alison Forrester (Davey) Smith, Susan Raines, Sharon Flowers, Kelsey Forester, Morgan Forester, nine great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the South Crest Chapel with Pastor David Brown officiating. Interment will follow at Rock Spring Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may be shared at lane-southcrestchapel.com.

A special thanks to the CNA’s and other staff members at National Healthcare of Fort Oglethorpe for their compassionate and exceptional care.

The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at the South Crest Chapel of Lane Funeral Home and Crematory, at the end of historic Missionary Ridge, Rossville. 

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