Kay County OK Obit for: Lancelot Fenwick Richardson 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/12/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, 
http://www.poncacitynews.com/
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Lancelot Fenwick Richardson

OCALA, Fla. - Lancelot "Lance" Fenwick Richardson Jr., former Ponca 
City resident, died June 27, 1996, at Columbia Ocala Regional Medical 
Center in Ocala, Fla. He was 70.

A memorial service will be held in Lawson Cemetery at Yale, Okla., at 
a later date. Arrangements and cremation are under the direction of 
Roberts Funeral Home of Ocala, Fla. 

Lance Richardson was born May 22, 1926, in Mount Hope, W. Va., to Lancelot 
Fenwick and Audie (Vaught) Richardson Sr. 

He received his early education in West Virginia and at Berea College in 
Kentucky. 

He later attended Morris Valley College in Charleston, W. Va., where he 
was a member of Sigma Delta Phi. 

Richardson served in the Navy in World War II aboard the U.S.S. General 
O.H. Ernst.

He and Wanda Z. Collins, of Yale, Okla., were married Feb. 10, 1946, 
by his chaplain on board ship. 

After his discharge, they made their home in Madison, W. Va. Richardson 
was employed by the Charleston Police Department. 

He was a Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite and the Beni Kedem Shrine 
of Charleston.

The Richardsons later moved to Miami, Fla., where he joined the Dade 
County Sheriff's Department. 

After suffering a stroke, he returned to work in the Dade County Department 
of Corrections and Rehabilitation, retiring in 1972. 

They later moved to north Florida then to Ponca City in 1979. 

They moved Ocala, Fla., in 1994. He was a member of the Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Wanda, of Ocala, Fla.; one daughter, Deborah, 
of Ocla; one half-brother, Woodson Richardson, of Pedro, Ohio; two aunts; 
and one granddaughter.
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