Maude Lancaster Lewis

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Services for Maude Lancaster Lewis, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Thursday, Aug. 20, at First United Methodist Church with burial inRiverwood Memorial Park.

Visitation is Wednesday from 5 until 7 p.m. at BrookhavenFuneral Home on Natchez Drive.

Mrs. Lewis, 96, died Aug. 17, 2009, at her residence. She wasborn in Florala, Ala., on April 12, 1913, to Henry Lancaster andFannie Cox Lancaster.

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She taught at Mamie Martin Elementary School in Brookhavenbefore retiring. She was a member of First United Methodist Church.She was also a member of the Peripatetic Club, Garden Club, RetiredTeachers and the 50-plus Club.

Preceding her in death were her parents.

Survivors are her husband, James Lewis, of Brookhaven; a son,Larry Lewis, of Marietta, Ga.; a daughter, Rachel Lewis Freeman, ofVicksburg, Mich.; her four grandchildren, Kim Galland, of Athens,Ga., Jennifer Freeman, of Durham, N.C., John Freeman, of Madison,Wis., Jim Freeman, of Vicksburg, Mich.; and her twogreat-grandchildren, Sara Galland, of Athens, and Rose Freeman, ofMadison, Wis.

Memorials may be made to the Hospice Ministries.