Albert Lane
Funeral services for Albert Lane, 86, Clinton resident, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Clinton First United Methodist Church, officiated by Rev. Roland Youngberg.
Lane died Sunday, March 1, 2015, in the Grace Living Center in Clinton. He was born Aug. 17, 1928 in Chickasha, the son of Walter A. Lane and Elsie (Lenaburg) Lane.
His mother died when he was 8 days old, and he was left a very sick baby. His mother’s sister, Lena Schultz, took Albert as her own and raised him. He was known as Albert Schultz until he entered the U.S. Army.
He was raised and attended school at Guy School in Stafford, as well as in Clinton. When he was 16 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served a two year stint during World War II.
He was honorably discharged and returned to Clinton to complete his last two years of high school. He was married to Eva Mary Chancellor on March 18, 1950 in Clinton.
Lane began a career as a lineman with the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
He transferred to Tipton in 1957 and soon became the office manager and then retired after 35 years.
He returned with his family to Clinton in 1987, and his wife preceded him in death in November of 1999.
Lane was a long-time faithful and active member of the First United Methodist Church.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife; four children, Albert Merle Lane, Albert Max Lane and infant twins, a boy and a girl; a great-granddaughter, Katie Stevens; brothers and sisters, Wauneta Bolton, Carl Lane, Ethel Cheshier, Gladys Floyd, Earl Lane, Virgil Lane and Max Lenaburg; the Schultz foster siblings, Erna Wiest, George Schultz, Ed Schultz, Walter Schultz, Irene Russell, Bertha Southland, Emma McAtee, Hilbert Schultz, Annie Buffing, Elsie Reinschmidt, Mamie Estein, Leonard, Schultz, Edna Ratzliff and Alfred Schultz; and his step mother, Willa Mae Lane (who acted as his grandmother).
Survivors include sons, Marion Allen Lane, of Clinton, and Timothy Mark Lane, and his wife, Donna, of Era, Texas; and a daughter, Barbara Steigman, and her husband, Rollan, a sister, Joyce Beaushaw, and her husband, Jim, and a brother, Herbert Lane, and his wife, Jean, all of Yakima, Wash.; two step grandsons, Mike Stevens and Mark Stevens and his wife, Michelle; and five step-great-grandchildren, Kendyl Stevens, Kinsey Stevens, Courtney Stevens, Clay Stevens and Cade Stevens.
The family has suggested those wanting to give a memorial contribution may do so to the Parkinson’s Foundation of Oklahoma, 1831 E. 71st Street, Tulsa, OK 74136.
Burial will conclude in the Parkersburg Cemetery southwest of Clinton, under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.