LANE, Martha Ann (HAINES), 1865-1955

LANE, HAINES, MESSER, MCCLURE, EGLI, GRANAAS, GRAFF, OLINGER

Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 2/17/2012 at 08:04:10

The Mount Pleasant (IA) News
Saturday, 9 April 1955

Martha Haines Lane
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Martha Haines Lane, daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Messer) Haines, was born February 25, 1865, on a farm in the Richwoods community in Henry County, Iowa, and passed to her eternal reward on March 21st, 1955, at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ralph McClure near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, at the age of 90 years and 24 days.

On January 26, 1882, she was united in marriage to O. R. Lane. To this union eleven children were born. Her husband and five children, namely: Arthur, Karl, Esther, Alice and Oliver, preceded her in death. Those who survive to mourn her loss, are Ada McClure, Mt. Pleasant; Frank of Miami, Florida; Elsie Egli and John Lane of Mt. Pleasant; George of Paradise California, and Roberta Granaas of Burbank, California; 15 grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren; 14 great great grandchildren and two sisters Mrs. Carrie Graff of Mt. Pleasant and Mrs. Barbara Olinger, Milton, Iowa; besides a host of other relatives and friends.

Mattie Lane, as she was commonly, known, was born and died in Henry County, Iowa, but so fully did she live her life and so unselfishly that the scope of her influence was felt far and wide.

Converted at an early age in the Methodist Protestant Church at Richwoods, she immediately became active in the service of the Lord. For many years she served the church at White Oak, in which she held her membership at the time of her death, as Sunday School Supt. When she and her husband moved to Mt. Pleasant she continued her work in the First Baptist church where she was both Sunday School teacher and Deaconess.

Upon her moving to California, where she spent twenty years of her life she united with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Glendale. While there she became actively interested in missionary work and because of this there stands in Sierra Leione, West Africa the Martha A. Lane Memorial Church. China too felt the impact of her love and interest, and many people in China today mourn her loss.

The qualities of her personality were found far too rarely in this world and they were the qualities that people turn toward as instinctively as the growing flower turns toward the light.