Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, January 31, 1986

Captain Edwin S. “Eddie” Fouts

SHREVEPORT - Services for Captain Edwin S. “Eddie” Fouts, 41, of Shreveport, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday January 31 at the Osborn Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Marie Williams will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Joe Morell, the Shreveport Fire Department chaplain, and the Rev. James Stovall.

Captain Fouts, a native and lifelong resident of Shreveport, died Wednesday January 29, 1986, at Schumpert Medical Center after a short illness. He was employed on the Shreveport Fire Department on September 16, 1963; promoted to driver on August 1, 1971; and to Captain on March 16, 1978. Captain Fouts was presently assigned to Rescue One "B" Shift, Central Fire Station and was the Fire Department representative to the Municipal Fire & Police Civil Service Board, a position he had held since March 31, 1977. He was a member of the Cedar Grove United Methodist Church, vice-president of Firefighters Local No. 514 and Local 514's chairman for Muscular Dystrophy for many years, a member of the Professional Firefighters of Louisiana, the Central Trade & Labor Council, Louisiana AFL-CIO and the International Association of Fire-fighters.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth Lottinger Fouts, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Fouts, Sr., one son, Edwin Fouts, Jr., one daughter, Jaime Fouts, all of Shreveport; two brothers, Lonnie Fouts of Shreveport and Jimmy Ray Fouts of New Orleans, La.; two sisters, Sally Cox of Shreveport and Evelyn Davis of Midland, Texas; and his grandmother, Mrs. L.M. O'Quinn of Shreveport.

Pallbearers will be John Fuico, Eddie Becken, Mark Davis, Rex Shamburger, Jack Allen, Bobby Cannon, David Friar and Charley Fredieu.

Honorary pallbearers: members of Shreveport Fire Department and the Firefighters Credit Union.

Family requests, in lieu of flowers, that memorials be made to Muscluar [sic Muscular] Dystrophy, the Salvation Army or Cedar Grove United Methodist Church.