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Willie Butler Lancaster - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, November 1983

TALLULAH — Services for Mrs. Willie Butler Lancaster were at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Tallulah First Methodist Church with the Rev. Larry Miller officiating. Burial was in Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah under direction of Crothers Funeral Home of Tallulah.

Mrs. Lancaster died Monday at Madison Parish Hospital in Tallulah after a long illness.

She was a native of Meadville, Miss.; a resident of Tallulah for 56 years; a housewife; and a member of Tallulah First Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr., and Donald B. Lancaster, both of Tallulah; a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Clair Placke of Tallulah; a brother, Alton Butler of Baton Rouge; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

The family request memorials be made to United Methodist Women's Organization.

Pallbearers were J.C. Byram, Herbert Massey, Lloyd Shelton, Harvey Mounger, J.K. "Billy" Post Jr., Virgil Neumann, Bob Craft and Charles Arneson.

Honorary pallbearers were Dr. H.S. Provine, Dr. W.K. Perks, and John Edward Hughston.