Albert Lane

Funeral Services for Albert Lane, 86, Clinton resident will be held 2:00 P.m., Thursday, March 5, 2015 in the First United Methodist Church officiated by Rev. Roland Youngberg. Burial will conclude in the Parkersburg Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Albert Lane was born August 17, 1928 to Walter A. Lane and Elsie (Lenaburg) Lane in Chickasha, OK and passed away Sunday, March 1, 2015 in Grace Living Center in Clinton, OK. Albert's mother passed away when he was 8 days old and Albert 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 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 WWII. He was honorably discharged, returned to Clinton and completed his last two years of high school. He was married to Eva Mary Chancellor on March 18, 1950 in Clinton. He began a career as a lineman with the Public Service Electric Company. He transferred to Tipton, Oklahoma 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. He was a long time faithful and active member of the First United Methodist Church; he loved the outdoors, hunting, fishing and playing dominos. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife and four children, Albert Merle Lane, Albert Max Lane and infant twins, a boy and a girl, a great-granddaughter, Katie Stevens; by 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 Scxhultz, 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 (acted as grandmother). He is survived by his Marion Allen Lane, of Clinton, Timothy Mark Lane and wife, Donna, of Era, TX and Barbara Steigman and husband, Rollan; a sister, Joyce Beaushaw and husband, Jim and Herbert Lane and his wife, Jean, all of Yakima, WA . He is also survived by two step grandsons, Mike Stevens and Mark Stevens and 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.