Submitted by Melva Taylor
The Gazette, Sterling, Illinois
April 19, 1945 - Thursday, pg. 13, col. 1

ROCK FALLS - Community

MRS. ELLA LANE DIES FROM COMPLICATIONS AFTER BREAKING HIP

Mrs. Ella Lane, 307 Third Avenue, Rock Falls, passed away at 6:55 p.m. Wednesday in the Sterling Public hospital where she had been a patient since she fell in her home April 4, breaking her hip. Complications developed, causing her death.

Born in Sterling, March 9, 1867, the daughter of Wendell and Sarah Gaulrapp, she was about two years of age when the family moved to Hahnaman township. They later moved to Hume township where she was united in marriage to Robert Lane. They also resided on farms in Lyndon and Round Grove before moving to Tintak, Minn., where Mr. Lane passed away about 25 years ago.

Following Mr. Lane's death the widow came to Rock Falls to reside with her parents, remaining with them until their death. Since that time she had lived alone in the home.

Surviving are five brothers, William of Sterling, Henry of Rock Falls, Frank Clarence and Aaron of Hume township, and one sister, Mrs. Anna Dennison of West Allis, Wis.

Mrs. Lane had been a member of the Good Deeds circle of the King's Daughters, also of the Rock Falls Methodist church, and her pastor, Rev. Wayne Leighty, will conduct the funeral rites at 2 p.m. Friday at the Wheelock funeral home, where the body was moved from the hospital. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.