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For sixty-five years, Lancaster was married to the former Beverly Vedros (1921-2013), a native of Lutcher in St. James Parish in South Louisiana.<ref name=bvlobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?pid=164539506|title=Beverly Vedros Lancaster|publisher=''Monroe News-World''|date=April 30, 2013|accessdate=July 24, 2014}}</ref> The couple hadthree children, Judge Michael E. Lancaster and his wife, Becky, of Tallulah; Patricia Ann "Patsy" Clapp and her husband, Billy Clapp, of Ocala,  [[Florida]]; and Edgar Hunter Lancaster, III, and his wife Terri of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]].<ref name=bvlobit/> The Lancasters' daughter, as Patsy Forcier, the then wife of Ray Forcier, was an employee of the city of [[Shreveport]], an authority on sewer matters and the administrative assistant from 1977 to 1978 under then Public Utilities Commissioner [[Billy Guin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57669453/|title=From Cancan to sewer lines|publisher=''The San Bernardino County Sun''|author=Bonnie Davis|date=May 19, 1978|page=48|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>  

For sixty-five years, Lancaster was married to the former Beverly Vedros (1921-2013), a native of Lutcher in St. James Parish in South Louisiana.<ref name=bvlobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?pid=164539506|title=Beverly Vedros Lancaster|publisher=''Monroe News-World''|date=April 30, 2013|accessdate=July 24, 2014}}</ref> The couple hadthree children, Judge Michael E. Lancaster and his wife, Becky, of Tallulah; Patricia Ann "Patsy" Clapp and her husband, Billy Clapp, of Ocala,  [[Florida]]; and Edgar Hunter Lancaster, III, and his wife Terri of [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]].<ref name=bvlobit/> The Lancasters' daughter, as Patsy Forcier, the then wife of Ray Forcier, was an employee of the city of [[Shreveport]], an authority on sewer matters and the administrative assistant from 1977 to 1978 under then Public Utilities Commissioner [[Billy Guin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57669453/|title=From Cancan to sewer lines|publisher=''The San Bernardino County Sun''|author=Bonnie Davis|date=May 19, 1978|page=48|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>  

   

   

Lancaster died at the age of ninety-one; Mrs. Lancaster lived another four years.  The Lancasters, both generations, are interred at Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah. Honorary pallbearers for Representative Lancaster's funeral included state Attorney General [[Buddy Caldwell]], whom Lancaster swore into office in 2008; a former legislative colleague, [[L .D. "Buddy" Napper]] of Ruston, and Henry Sevier, Jr., son of the legislator whom Lancaster succeeded in 1952.<ref name=obit/> Caldwell called Lancaster, "the gold standard" for the legal profession, the legislature, the family and community, and as a judge and athlete.<ref name=findagrave/>  

Lancaster died at the age of ninety-one; Mrs. Lancaster lived another four years.  The Lancasters, both generations, are interred at Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah. Honorary pallbearers for Representative Lancaster's funeral included state Attorney General [[Buddy Caldwell]], whom Lancaster swore into office in 2008; a former legislative colleague, [[L. D. "Buddy" Napper]] of Ruston, and Henry Sevier, Jr., son of the legislator whom Lancaster succeeded in 1952.<ref name=obit/> Caldwell called Lancaster, "the gold standard" for the legal profession, the legislature, the family and community, and as a judge and athlete.<ref name=findagrave/>  

   

   

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