Esther Gardner Lancaster Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

PIKEVILLE – Esther Gardner Lancaster, 87, went to be with the Lord and Savior, Monday at Kitty Askins surrounded by her family. Funeral service will be held 7:00 Wednesday at Free Chapel Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church, 3302 Hwy 111 North. The Rev.’s Dock Hobbs and Jimmy Forehand will officiate. Committal will be private at Pikeville Cemetery. There will be a time of visiting and sharing with the family following the service at the church and other times at 152 Lancaster Road. Surviving is her husband of 70 years J. R. Lancaster. Son, Steve Lancaster (Gail) of Pikeville, daughter, Theda Edge of Goldsboro. Daughter-in-law: Pam Lancaster of Middlesex. Grandchildren; Stephanie Lancaster Jones (Curtis), Jay Lancaster, Marcus Bailey, Gabriel Lancaster (Christina), Stacie Edge Moore (Rickie), Will Lancaster and Leah Lancaster. 6 Great Grandchildren Sisters; Arlene Gardner of Pikeville, Betty Jean Corbett (Donald), Linda Casey (Ben) both of Goldsboro. Brothers-in-law; Jimmy E. Grantham of Goldsboro and Leslie Davis of Pikeville. Sister-in-law; Anna Phipps Garner of Goldsboro. She was a beautician at Esther & Gail Beauty Shop. She was a graduate of the School of Cosmetologist in Greenville. Esther was a devoted member of Free Chapel Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church for 60 years where she was a choir director and taught Sunday school for a number of years and was very active in the Ladies Auxiliary. A native of the Patetown Community of Wayne County and was preceded in death by her son Michael Emmett Lancaster and her parents Mary Ida Blizzard Gardner & James Theodore “Thedie” Gardner, her step-mother; Nina Pate Gardner who she loved as her mother, her siblings; Mary Lou Gardner Grantham, James Edward “Hoss” Gardner (Dorothy), Grace Gardner Davis, George J. Gardner (Carol) and Thedie Garner, son-in-law; Glenn Edge. The family would like say a special thanks to her caregivers Beth Sauls, Brenda Weatherspoon and Karen Taylor, and a special friend, Jeannette Howell. In lieu of flowers the family request memorials be made to Kitty Askins Hospice Center, 107 Handley Park Court, Goldsboro, N. C. 27530

Esther Gardner Lancaster

October 7, 1927 - February 9, 2015