Rufus H. Foster, Sr., born in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1893 to Williams M. and Phoebe Brown Foster, married Henrietta Crystal Littlejohn and had seven children. In 1919, he founded Fosters Funeral Home in Gaffney, South Carolina, and at the time of his death in 1984 he was one of the oldest licensed funeral embalmers in South Carolina. He was a member of Bethel Baptist Church, where he served as treasurer for fifteen years and a deacon for thirty-five years, and he served in World War I, earning the rank of Sergeant. Rufus H. Foster, Jr., born in 1927, graduated from Johnson C. Smith University and worked at the family business, Foster Funeral Home. He was a faithful member of Dunton United Methodist Church and with his wife, Mildred Thomas, had two children. In 1947, he organized and purchased uniforms for the first two Little League teams in Gaffney and coached one team. For twenty-five years, he served as a high school referee for football and basketball and managed the city's Black baseball team. In 1949, he started the Foster Funeral Home Radio Program, which still airs from 8:30-9:30 Sunday mornings and is the oldest running live program on 1180 WFGN "Your Spiritual Friend." He served as a board member of the Boys' Club, a member of the Advisory Board of Nations Bank, and chair of the C&S Bank Advisory Board. He joined Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. at Johnson C. Smith University in 1944 and was a charter member of the Spartanburg and Gaffney chapters, and he was a Life Member of the fraternity for 70 years. He was also a Life Member of the NAACP and helped establish "The Voice of the People" organization. A street in the Concord community was named in his honor. He was the first Black Rotarian in the state of South Carolina and served as past president of the Blacksburg Rotary Club. He served as president of the Gaffney Men's Bowling League and was a member of the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governors, which serves six counties in the Upstate. In 1971, he was elected Most Worshipful Grand Master of Prince Hall Masons for the state of South Carolina and served in that position for four years. He dedicated 66 years to the Boy Scouts of America and was Scoutmaster of summer camp at Camp Lea for 12 years. He was elected to the Cherokee County Council in 1984, served until his death in 2017, and was vice chairman for several years.