Edna Lancaster

May 20, 1921 - November 14, 2006

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Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home-Big Spring

Saturday 11/18, 10:00 am

Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home

3800 N. Big Spring St

Midland, Texas 79705

Saturday 11/18, 8:32 am

Edna Lancaster, 85, of Cantonment, Florida, formerly of Big Spring, died on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, in a New Smyrna Beach, Florida hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Saturday, November 18, 2006 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Rev. Weldon McEireath and Rev. Jessie McEireath, officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Olive Memorial Park.The family will receive friends from 9:00 AM until service time on Saturday.She was born on May 20, 1921, in Osage, Arkansas and married Marion Lancaster on December 14, 1939 in Colorado City, Texas. He preceded her in death on October 29, 2002.Edna grew up in West Texas. She was a "Rosie the Riveter" at the shipyard in Hunters Point, California. She had lived in Big Spring prior to moving to Cantonment, Florida in 2003 to be near her sister. She claimed all of her nieces and nephews as her children.Survivors include four sisters, Mamie Mullins of Redland, California, Mildred Westmacott of San Jose, California, Fay Robbins of Cantonment, Florida and Nettie Large of Salem, Oregon.She was also preceded in death by her mother, Iva Laura Elrod Wheeler; father, Henry Ashley Wheeler; one brother, H. A. Wheeler and one sister, Mary Barrett.The family suggests memorial be made to the American Lung Association, P. O. Box 26460, Austin, Texas 78755-0460.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com,