MORRISTOWN -- Madge Long Foster, 90, of Kanterbury Drive, Knoxville, died Saturday morning at her home after a brief illness.

A daughter of the late James Smith and Nell Gray Fisher Long, Mrs. Foster was born and raised in Whitesburg, where the Long and Pangle families received land grants in the Bent Creek Settlement in 1778.

She and her first husband, the late Everett Holder, were residents of Greeneville for a number of years.

She was a member of the Alice Bell Baptist Church of Knoxville, where she was a member of the Mary and Martha Sunday School Class, and was a former member of the Robertson Creek Baptist Church of Bulls Gap.

Mrs. Foster attended Whitesburg High School, where she was a star basketball player.

She attended Knoxville Business College and was retired from The White Stores Inc. after 46 years of employment there.

Mrs. Foster was preceded in death by her first husband, Everett Holder, and her second husband, Ernest Foster; a sister: Eva Jeanette Heck; and two brothers: Francis Smith Long and Max Miller Long; and a great-niece: Laura Allison Schism.

She is survived by: a stepson and his wife: Max and Patsy Foster of Seymour; a stepdaughter and her husband: Sandy and Ed Mee of Farragut; several stepgrandchildren; one sister: Maxine Long Shepherd of Bulls Gap; three nieces: Joanne Heck Schism, and Mary Donn Heck Kilday and her husband Jack, all of Kingsport, and Donna Shepherd Qualls of Bulls Gap; two nephews and their wives: the Rev. Richard and Rebecca Long of Mosheim and Rodney and Teresa Long of Morristown; three great-nieces: Kerri Atkins and Krista Long, both of Morristown, and Madonna Qualls of Bulls Gap; four great-nephews: Phillip Long of Greeneville, Christopher Long of Mosheim, and Matthew Qualls and Luke Qualls, both of Bulls Gap; one great-great-niece; Emmalee Atkins of Morristown; a special cousin and his wife: Van and Lois Fisher of Knoxville; special friends: Ryan and Agnes Long of Knoxville; a special niece of her first husband: Jenny Kate Presnell of Knoxville; and many other friends.

The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. today at Stevens Mortuary, at Oglewood Avenue and Broadway, Knoxville.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Narrow Valley Baptist Church Cemetery in Grainger County, with her pastor, the Rev. Toby Everett, officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alice Bell Baptist Church, 3305 Alice Bell Road, Knoxville, TN 37917; or to the Robertson Creek Baptist Church, 144 Robertson Creek Road, Bulls Gap, TN 37711.

This obituary was provided as a courtesy of Mayes Family Services, 444 W. Main St., Morristown.