Audrain County Obituaries
| LAKE | Services for G. Stuart Lake have been set for Tuesday at the Wilkey Funeral Home in Perry. The Rev. Jay Stinson will officiate. Burial will be Wednesday at the Barkley Cemetery in New London. Mr. Lake died Sunday at the Shelbina Nursing Home. He was formerly an employee of the Ralls County Highway Department. He was born June 27, 1910 in New London to Paul and Mary Stuart Lake. On Aug. 16, 1966 he married Eva May Hummell, who survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Teresa May Whitaker, New London; a sister, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Jeffries, Green Grove, Iowa; a brother, Lewis Lake of New London; and four grandchildren. (Mexico Ledger 8-20-84) Ida Hepler |
| LANE | Mexico Weekly Ledger, 14 Jan, 1909 Pg. 1,
col. 4 Mrs. Ann Eliza Lane Dead After an illness of about one week Mrs. Ann Eliza Lane died at her home in this city Thursday morning, January 7, 1909, of pneumonia. At the time of her death deceased was 81 years, 6 months of age, having been born at Frankfort, Ky., July 12, 1827. In early childhood, she with her parents moved to this state. Mrs. Lane had lived in Mexico for about 29 years, she moving to Mexico from Cole county, coming here at the time for her husband's death in that county. At the age of 15 years Mrs Lane joined the Southern Methodist church and from then on lived a consecrated life. Grandma Lane was truly a good woman; she loved her family; she loved her neighbors and friends; she was a devoted mother, a loving wife and possessed of a never murmuring heart, made her a woman loved by all, and her death has caused a deep gloom over the community in which she lived. As in the words of one of her children, Mrs. Lane was 'the best mother that ever lived.' She leaves the following children to mourn her loss, with many other relatives and friends: Mrs. Mary E. Hall, of Colorado; Mrs. Mattie S. Fry, of Laddonia; John H. Lane of Mexico; Richard Lane, of Mexico; Mrs. Georgie W. Shobe, of Esses, Mo.; Mrs. Carrie Stewart, of Kansas City; Wm. A. Lane, of Fulton, and Shobe Lane, of Mexico, together with the following sisters: Mrs. Martha Lawson, Osage county, MO., Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, of St. Louis; Mrs, Rebecca S. Shobe, of Laddonia, and Mrs. Catherine Davis, of Denison, Texas. From Virginia W. Thomas |
| LANE | Mexico Weekly Ledger, 6 May 1943, Pg. 8,
col. 1 Harvey Richard Lane, 87 years old, of this city, died Monday afternoon at the Audrain hospital after being ill for several months. Mr. Lane was born in Cole county on January 15, 1856, the son of the late George H. and Anne Liza Lane. He came to Mexico to live when a young man and for many years he operated a meat market on West Promenade street. He is survived by one brother, John of this city who is 89 years old, four sisters, Mrs. Carrie Stewart, 82 and Mrs. Martha Fry, 91, who live at 315 East Promenade street, and Mrs. Mary Hall, 93, of Denver, Colo. and Mrs. Georgia Shobe, 84, of Dexter. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Precht Funeral Home with the Rev. J. D. Randolph officiating. From Virginia W. Thomas |
| LANE | The Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, MO 16 Oct. 1941, p. 7. col. 4 & 5 William Lane, resident of Mexico for more than 60 years, died suddenly in his quarters in the Lane Building, corner Promenade and Jefferson, shortly after noon Tuesday. Death was attributed to natural causes by Coroner E. Y. Burton who said no inquest would be conducted. It was said he had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Lane who was born in Cole county, was the son of Harvey and Ann Eliza Lane. He was 77 years old. He came here in 1879. Surviving are former Mayor John H. Lane, Harvey Lane, Mrs. Mattie Fry, Mrs. Carrie Stewart of this city, Mrs. Mary E. Hall of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Georgie Shobe of Dexter, brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Precht's chapel by the Rev. J. D. Randolph, pastor of the Mexico Methodist church. Burial will be at Elmwood cemetery. From Virginia W. Thomas |
| LANE | Mexico Weekly Ledger, Thurs, 2 Jan. 1941, Pg. 5, col.
2 Jacob Shobe Lane, Mexico resident for 61 years, and youngest member of the Lane family of seven remaining brothers and sisters, died suddenly in his room above the Sosna Theatre in the Lane building, corner Promenade and Jefferson streets, at 6:30 o'clock Sunday morning. Coroner Y. E. Burton attributed death to natural causes, and said no inquest would be held. Mr. Lane was 69 years old and had bee in the painting business. His death was the first among the original family of eight, the oldest of whom, Mrs. Mary Hall of Denver, Colo., is 92. Other surviving sisters and brothers, are Mrs. Martha Fry of Mexico, 89; former Mayor John H. Lane of this city, who will be 87 February 5; Richard Lane of Mexico, who will be 85 January 15; Mrs. Georgia Shobe of Dexter, 83; Mrs. Carrie Stewart of Mexico, 80, and William A. Lane of this city, 78. Born in Cole county, Mr. Lane was the son of George Harvey and Elizabeth Hart Lane. He moved to Mexic0 in 1879. The Ledger extends sympathy. Funeral rites were conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Precht Chapel by the Rev. J. D. Randlph, pastor of the Mexico Methodist church. From Virginia W. Thomas |
| LANE | Mexico Weekly Ledger, 20 Mar. 1941, Pg. 7, col. 1 Mrs. John H. Lane, prominent Mexico resident and life-long Audrain countian, died at the Audrain hospital at 1:15 o'clock Saturday morning, after a long illness. Death came as Mrs. Lane neared her 81st birthday. She had been a patient in the hospital since November. Mrs. Lane, whose home was at 315 East Promenade street, was formerly Miss Oceola Kendall, eldest of the 10 children of the late Judge S. E. and Martha Cauthorn Kendall. She was born April 26, 1860, at the Kendall farm 12 miles northeast of Mexico. On September 12, 1883, she was married to Mr. Lane, former mayor of Mexico, and moved here to make her home. Surviving Mrs. Lane are her husband; a sister, Mrs. Julia Tucker of Los Angeles, Calif.; four brothers, Joe, Ran and Clayton Kendall of San Antonio, Tex., and Ford of Boonville; an adopted son, Harry Lane of Los Angeles, Calif; a grandson, John Lane II of the home here, and many friends. Mrs. Lane had spent an active life and before her health failed was prominent in club, churches and civic circles. She was a member of the First Baptist church, the Fitzhugh Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Captain John Hall Chapter of the Daughters of the American colonists, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. During the World War, Mrs Lane was active in variousl organizations to aid service men. For around 25 years she was a member of the State Board of the Baptist Orphans Home at St. Louis, in which she placed 36 children. ------------------------------------ Funeral rites were conducted at 2 o'clock here Monday afternoon at the First Baptist church, for Mrs. John H. Lane, prominent Mexicoan, who died Saturday. The Rev. Lawrence Fitzgerald, pastor, officiated, and burial was at Elmwood cemetery. Pallbearers were: Joe Beatty, Clark Garrett, Ross Cauthorn, Dr. R. S. Williams, Earl Haggard and W. B. Sappington. Music included sextette numbers by Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Baker Barnes, Mrs David McGrew, Mrs. Ross Wagner, Robert Martin and George Koen, accompanied by Mrs.E. R. Jackson.Among those here from out of town for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Ford Kendall and son Forrest of Boonville. The Ledger joins Mrs. Lane's many friends in extending sympathy. From Virginia W. Thomas |
| LANE | From Virginia W. Thomas |