William Lane

William C. "Bill" Lane, 86, of Little Road passed away Monday, February 19, 2007 at the St. Claire Regional Medical Center. He was born on August 16, 1920 in Nicholas County, Kentucky to the late William C. and Mary Dean Hall Lane. Mr. Lane owned and operated the Lane Funeral Home on Main Street in Morehead for many years. The funeral home also provided ambulance service to the area as was the custom during that time. He and Betty Stucky were partners in Lane-Stucky Funeral Home until they sold their interest to Mike Gray in 1987. Bill was former owner and founder of the Globe Funeral Chapel in Olive Hill. Mr. Lane came to Morehead in 1939 to pursue a degree in agriculture from Morehead Teachers College. He began to work for his uncle, Clark B. Lane at the Lane Funeral Home, while he was attending college. Bill became very interested in the funeral business, so he decided to pursue this career. He graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming and became a licensed funeral director and embalmer in 1942. After serving as a Corporal in the United States Army during World War II, where he served as a surgical technician at Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, he came back to Morehead in 1946 and remained here until his death. Bill was an active funeral director and embalmer for over sixty-four years. He was actively involved in the funeral home until his recent illness. Mr. Lane was one of the founders of the Daniel Boone Convalescent Home, which is now Life Care Center. Bill was a member of the Morehead Lions Club, the Morehead Masonic Lodge No. 654, the National Funeral Directors Association and the Kentucky Funeral Directors Association. He attended the Morehead First Baptist Church and enjoyed farming, cattle, horses, gardening, landscaping and woodworking. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, James Wall Lane and two sisters, Lyda Lou Darnall and Edith Chapman. Survivors include his wife, Ezelle Flannery Lane of Morehead, two sons, William C. Lane III and his wife, Gail of Polkville, North Carolina and Drew Evans Lane and his wife, Jayne of Somerset, one sister, Kathleen Richardson of Mt. Sterling, five grandchildren, William C. Lane IV, Marsha Blaney and her husband, John, Andrew Lane, Evans Lane and his wife, Tiffany and Sarah Cash and her husband, Jim, three great-grandchildren, Justin Lane, Taylor Blaney and Brian Blaney and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, February 22, 2007 in the chapel of the Lane-Stucky-Gray Funeral Home with Dr. Jack Ellis and Rev. Mark Caldwell officiating. Burial will follow in the Brown Cemetery. Visitation is after 6:00 P.M. Wednesday.

Pallbearers will be Bruce Darnall, Timmy Darnall, Tony Darnall, Tom Lane, Rob Lane and John Blaney.