Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lancaster, Lena Ottley November 21, 1943
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot November 23, 1943

                      WOMAN LEADER DIES AT HOME ON SOUTHSIDE

       Mrs. Lena Ottley Lancaster, Church and Community Worker Succumbs

Mrs. Lena Ottley Lancaster, prominent in church, community and social life, 
died Sunday night at 9:30 o'clock at the residence, 406 South Main Street, 
after an illness of several months.
A native of Columbus, Miss., where she spent her childhood, Mrs. Lancaster 
was the daughter of the late William N. and Frances Henry Ottley and the 
widow of Arthur J. Lancaster.
Her first marriage was to George Doniphan Parker, Jr., of Berkley, and she 
came here as a bride in 1903.  Of this marriage she is survived by a 
daughter, Mary Parker Old, the wife of James E. Old, Jr.  Mr. Parker died in 
1912.
She also is survived by a grandchild, Arthur Doniphan Old; two brothers, 
Marcelle Ottley of Norfolk and Clifton Ottley of Columbus, Miss. and a 
number of nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Lancaster was an active and devoted member of St. Bride's Episcopal 
Church, a member of the choir, a teacher in the Sunday school, for many 
years president of the Altar Guild and an officer of the Woman's Auxiliary 
of St. Bride's Guild.  For a number of years she was secretary to the 
principal of the Robert Gatewood School and was greatly beloved, especially 
in her church circles.
Funeral services will be conducted in St. Bride's Episcopal Church tomorrow 
morning at 11 o'clock and burial will be in the family plot in Magnolia 
Cemetery.  The body will lie in state at the residence until the funeral.

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