Bennie D. Lancaster, Sr., farmer and World War veteran, living on Route 1, Bath Springs, Tenn., died at 8:55 last night at Veterans Hospital. He entered at 3:45 a. m. yesterday. He was 47.
Mr. Lancaster was a native of Tennessee, and was a first-class private in the World War.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Jessie Woodie Lancaster; nine children, Mrs. Irene Goodman, Mrs. Geneva Montgomery, J. L., Ruth, Bennie D. Jr., Dorothy, Ralph, Ted and Patricia Anne Lancaster; His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Lancaster; two brothers, Curry H. and Grady Lancaster, and three sisters, Mrs. Beulah Boggan, Mrs. Thelma Tuten and Mrs. Julia Stephens.