Philip Dwight Lane
Born: February 17, 1917 in Rex 5, Monroe Co., Iowa
Died: September 4, 2009 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 299, plot 2
Lot Owner: Philip Lane
Married: Marjorie Hitchler on January 19, 1941 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Children: Barbara, Marvelyn, D. Dean
Parents: George and Selma (Anderson) Lane
Obituary of Philip D. Lane
METZ - Philip "Lupo" D. Lane, 92, of Metz passed away Sept. 4, 2009, in the Hospice of Jasper County Monarch Wing.
Visitation with the family will be Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the United Presbyterian Church. Funeral services will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at the United Presbyterian Church with lunch following. Burial will be at the Sugar Grove Cemetery in Metz. Rev. David Rex from the Metz Community Church will be officiating. Pence-Reese Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Memorials to Hospice of Jasper County or Metz Community Church may be left at the Pence-Reese Funeral Home.
Phil was born Feb. 17, 1917, in Rex 5, a coal mining community near Albia. His parents were George F. and Selma (Anderson) Lane. Phil moved to the Newton area when he was 10 years old and has been a resident of Jasper County ever since.
Phil graduated from Newton Senior High School in 1935. He married Marjorie Mae Hitchler on Jan. 19, 1941, at the home of her aunt, Fern Coffman in Newton. He worked on a Maytag Farm north of Newton for three years, then moved to Metz where he farmed until retirement in 1982.
He then was an insurance adjuster for Jasper Mutual Insurance for several years and also worked for the Jasper County Board of Health. Phil was a member of the Metz Community Church, Sugar Grove Grange and past board member of the Jasper County Farm Bureau. Phil was clerk of the Sugar Grove Cemetery Association and Mound Prairie Township for many years.
Phil liked to make others smile and laugh and loved a good joke. Phil's hobby was fishing and often went to Canada or Minnesota. He built his own pond and spent many hours fishing there. Spring meant mushroom hunting and he eagerly looked forward to that each year. He loved planting and harvest time.
Those left to celebrate his life are his wife, Marjorie; two daughters, Barbara Hug of Metz, her children, Cory Hug of Clive and Julie (Steve) Chasse' of Des Moines, and their children, Jack, William and Luke; Marvelyn (John) Adams of Metz and their children, John (Shawna) Adams and their child Amanda of Overland Park, Kan., Jennifer Adams of Washington D.C., and Mike (Kyra) Adams of Newton, and children, Seth, Cadence and Aliya. One son, D. Dean (Joy) Lane of Metz, and children Erik Lane of Brooklyn, N.Y., Richard Lane of Ames and Katherine Lane of Tallahassee, Fla.; and one brother, Donald Lane of Altoona.
Preceding him in death were his parents; four brothers, Kenneth, Edward "Ted", Paul and Leo; one granddaughter, Mandy Adams; and one great-granddaughter, Sophie Chasse' ~ Newton Daily News, September 9, 2009.