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Wednesday Services Set for Retired Pastor Francis E. Foss
TURLOCK, CA (February 18, 2002) - A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Turlock Covenant Church for retired Covenant pastor Francis E. Foss, 77, who died last Tuesday.
Interment will take place at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Information on visitation is not yet available.
Foss served as full-time pastor in seven different Covenant churches, beginning in 1950. He and his wife, Elna "Jean" Foss, were residing at Covenant Village of Turlock at the time of his death.
Born August 6, 1924, Foss attended North Park Junior College from 1948-50 and graduated from North Park Theological Seminary in 1956, having spent time at Berkeley Divinity School in California. He was ordained as a Covenant pastor in 1960.
While at Berkeley Divinity School, Foss was pastor at Rocklin Covenant Church in Rocklin, California. After graduating from seminary, he served a one-year interim pastorate at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, and then took a permanent position at Calvary Covenant Church in Cranston, Rhode Island, where he served from 1957 to 1962.
Before retiring, Foss served six years at Pilgrim Covenant Church in Lunenburg, Massachusetts; four years at Palmetto Covenant Church in North Miami, Florida; and nearly six years at Beulah Covenant Church (now Turlock Covenant) in Turlock, California. He concluded his full-time ministry at Bloomington Covenant Church in Bloomington, Minnesota.
He is survived by his wife and four children: Peter, Stephen, Martha and Lisa.
For more information, call Turlock Covenant Church at 209-667-1191.
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