Alice Stallworth Lancaster of Columbus, Mississippi

January 13, 1949 - May 21, 2020

Alice Stallworth Lancaster departed this life for her Heavenly home on Ascension Day, May 21, 2020, at Merit Health Central Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. She is survived by her husband, Judge Robert L. “Bob” Lancaster; daughter, Lea Alice Lancaster Parker and husband, Matthew, of Arlington, VA; daughter, Katie Lancaster Johnson and husband, Bill, of Nashville, TN; son, Dr. Richard Jeptha Lancaster and wife, Chelsey, of Fairhope, AL; three grandsons, Knox George Parker and Logan Lancaster Parker of Arlington, VA and William Jeptha Lancaster of Fairhope, AL; two granddaughters, Mary Francis Johnson and Kingslea Stallworth Johnson of Nashville, TN; mother-in-law Irene Burrow Lancaster of Columbus, MS; and brother-in-law William Otis Lancaster and wife, Lynn, of Columbus, MS. Alice is also survived by her sisters Nancy Stallworth Thomas of Houston, TX; and Clementine Stallworth deRoode of Huntsville, AL; and brother Dr. John Clement Stallworth and wife, Pamela, of Highlands Ranch, CO.

Alice was pre-deceased by her parents, Dr. William Lea Stallworth and Dr. Alice Johnston Fitch Stallworth of Columbus, MS; brother, Dr. William King Stallworth and his wife, Jean, of Mt. Pleasant, SC;  brother-in-law, Dr. Sellers J. Thomas of Houston, TX and father-in-law Otis Glenn Lancaster.

Alice was born in Columbus, MS on January 13, 1949 and delivered by Dr. Tom Wolford at the Columbus Hospital. She took piano lessons from Mrs. McPherson. She was a graduate of Demonstration School, Cook Junior High and S. D. Lee High Class of 1966. At Lee High, she was President of the Student Council, member of Hall of Fame, received the DAR Good Citizenship Award, Four year letterman on Lee High Tennis Team, member of the LAT Social Club, Advertising Editor of the Lee High Annual  and member of Columbus Pilgrimage Court. She attended Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane University where she was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority. She was presented to Society at the Gold and White Ball of the Southern Debutante Assembly in Greenwood, MS. She graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Mississippi University for Women and with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Mississippi. She taught art at the University of Mississippi; Mississippi State University; Mississippi University for Women; and the Columbus Public Schools. She had one high school student win a Bill and Melinda Gates
Scholarship. She did free-lance artwork, calligraphy, and painting. She won first place in Graphics at the First Gum Tree Arts Festival.

Alice was the 1970 Columbus Pilgrimage Queen; a member of the Billups Garth Foundation; President of the Columbus Garden Club 1989-90 and 2012-2013; Member of the Northeast Mississippi Chi Omega Alumni Association; President of Susanna Pope Chapter and Alabama State Organizing Secretary of the National Society of Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century; Recording Secretary and past Regent of Colonel George Reade Chapter and Alabama State Regent of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists; Past Regent of the Bernard Romans Chapter and Mississippi State Recording Secretary of Daughters of the American Revolution; member of the Master Gardeners Association; volunteer at Friendship Cemetery; former Phi Delta House Corporation President of Chi Omega at Mississippi State University;   descendant of Colonel George Reade of Yorktown, VA and William the Conqueror.

Alice was a volunteer gardener at Baskerville Manor and loved creating many flower arrangements and playing in the dirt. Alice was a lifelong member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. She was a member of St. Paul’s Altar Guild. She will always be remembered as a true Christian,   wonderful teacher, faithful friend, loving mother and beloved wife.

Pall Bearers will be David deRoode, Brent Lancaster, Bowen Lancaster, Hank Merkel, Will Stallworth, Rufus Ward, and George Winton. Honorary Pall Bearers will be Rachel George, Betty Bryan, Charon Hardy, Susannah Brown, Louise Kaye, Linda New, Tjajuan Boswell, Dr. James F. Hooper, Robert A. Ivy Jr., Don DePriest, John R. Davis, Ralph Winton Sr., Ralph Winton Jr., Watts Ueltschey, John Owings, and Chuck Sanders.

Memorials may be made to the Altar Guild of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 318 College, Columbus, MS 39701.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory, 2nd Avenue North location. A private graveside ceremony will be held Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.