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Submitted: 11/12/21 • Approved: 11/12/21 • Last Updated: 11/15/21 • R468342-G0-S3
May 28, 1914-September 19, 1998
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - Lawrence Lancaster, 84, died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1998.
Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in Wheeler Cemetery with the Rev. Ricky Griffin, pastor of First Baptist Church in Sanford, and the Rev. Ken Keller, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Amarillo, officiating. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mr. Lancaster was born at Sand Springs. He lived in Pringle for 34 years before moving to Wheeler in 1983, when he retired as a pumper from Holt Oil Co. He was a member of the Panhandle Bluegrass Association and Wheeler Senior Citizens Association. He was a Presbyterian.
He married Lucy Virginia Pollard in 1939 at Sayre, Okla. She died in 1985.
Survivors include two daughters, Elaine Whelchel and Mary Burrow, both of Borger; a son, Larry D. Lancaster of Amarillo; a sister, Peggy Morse of Grady, N.M.; a granddaughter; and a greatgranddaughter.
The family will greet friends at the funeral home from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. today. In lieu of flowers, they request memorial contributions be to a favorite charity.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, September 21, 1998)
Contributed on 11/12/21
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