OBITUARY: Emma Lenore Lane, 1878-1966, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]

                     
	EMMA LANE, 88 RETIRED COUNTY RECORDER DIED

Funeral services for Miss Emma Lane, 88, were held Friday at the Schroeder
and Houg Funeral home in St. Ansgar.  The Rev. Eugene Schmidt, pastor of
the Otranto Community church was in charge.  Burial was at First Lutheran
cemetery in St. Ansgar.  (1966)

Miss Lane died Tuesday at the Osage Nursing Home. She was a resident there
since shortly after she became ill in March, 1961.    

Emma Lenore Lane was born March 13, 1878, at the Lane farm south of
St. Ansgar, the daughter of Hans K. and Mary Nelson Lane. She was baptized
and confirmed at First Lutheran church by the Rev. Johann Olsen.  She
received her education in the Olin school, public schools of St. Ansgar,
St. Ansgar Seminary, State College of Iowa in Cedar Falls, and Northwestern
University in Chicago.

She taught in the schools of Mitchell county, in Duluth, Minn.; and
Portland,, Ore.  Later she served as recorder in Mitchell county and was
a secretary.

She left her teaching position in Portland, Ore. to care for her parents.
After their death she made a home for her brother Lewis on their farm in
Otranto township. Several years were spent on a claim at Warren, Minn. and
there she was interested in bringing rural schools to that area.  A trip to
Europe made possible her attendance at the Passion Play at Oberamergau in
1910.

Miss Lane was a charter member of the St. Ansgar Women's club and St. Ansgar
Garden club. She was interested in community work, working in 4-H club work,
coaching home talent plays and giving readings from her "Scrap Book of
Memories" at many community gatherings.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, two brothers, and two
nephews.

Survivors include six nieces and one nephew: Mrs. Cora Wahl, Mrs. Mae Larson
of St. Ansgar, Dr. A. H. Groth, Columbia, Mo.; Mrs. Glenn Toolson of Twin
Falls, Idaho; Mrs. James Chase of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Mrs. Herbert Joes of
La Porte, Ind. and Mrs. Charles Peterson of Osage.



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