Wayne County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lancaster, Robert August 31, 1919
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Maquoketa Excelsior-Record
Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, December 9, 1919 


Robert Lancaster was born in Jackson County on September 28, 1902. He enlisted 
in the Navy on March 18, 1918, and served on board the Battleship Texas and 
was drowned while performing his duties, near the coast of Santa Cruse, 
California. His body was embalmed and on August 31, at 9:45 o'clock, the 
Chaplain conducted a appropriate funeral service, full military honors being 
rendered. All officers and men being assembled, the body was then put on ship 
and sent to San Francisco and buried at Mare Island. The body was later taken 
up and sent to T. J. Lancaster on November 29th and arrived at Maquoketa on 
Wednesday, December 3rd. His father H. J. Lancaster lives in Detroit, 
Michigan, also his brother, Neville Lancaster, now in Detroit. His mother died 
five years ago. 
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. J. Kidder from the home with 
interment in Mt. Hope cemetery. 



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