Kathryn S. "Katie" (SAUERBERG) LANE

SUERBERG, LANE, PRESTON, CHAPELL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/18/2011 at 18:03:23

Obituary - Kathryn S. "Katie" (Sauerberg) Lane

Kathryn "Katie" S. LANE 90, of Clear Lake died Monday December 6, 2004, at the Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. A Memorial Service will be held at noon Thursday December 9th, at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North 4th St, Clear Lake, with Rev. Thom CHRISTIAN of the First Congregational Church officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Inurnment will be in the spring at Elmwood Cemetery, Mason City, IA. Memorials may be made to Hospice of North Iowa or the Clear Lake First Congregational Church.

Katie was born August 9, 1914, the daughter of Cornelius & Ima (PRESTON) SAUERBERG at Topeka, KS. Katie graduated from High School at Castleton, NY, and from college at Albany, NY. She received her master's degree from Iowa State College at Ames in Plant Ecology. While looking for a teaching degree the government had a program for attending flight school free for civilian pilot training. Katie was accepted because she had a Masters Degree and passed for commercial & instructors rating in 1940. Katie taught many of our locals to fly. One of her students was Dr. Ed CHAPELL and she was his bookkeeper at the CHAPELL Clinic for about 15 years till they closed.

Katie married one of her students, Ranseford E. LANE, May 24, 1949 at the Congregational Church in Mason City. Katie & Ranse loved to trap shoot. She also enjoyed knitting, crossword puzzles, trapshooting, beekeeping, butterflies, and ecology. She was a member of the First Congregational Church of Clear Lake. She was installed as a Deacon in 1999.

Katie had no children but is survived by nieces, nephews, cousins and good friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and four sisters.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North 4th St, Clear Lake, IA (641-357-2193) www.colonialchapels.com

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Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2011