The Gazette, Sterling, Illinois
April 27, 1951 - Tuesday, pg. 2, col. 1

Grover C. Lane Of Rock Falls Passes

Grover C. Lane, 63, of Rock Falls, passed away shortly before midnight Monday in Community General hospital. He had been a patient there since March 18 for treatment of a heart ailment with which he had been stricken a few days previously in his home.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Wheelock funeral home in Rock Falls, where the body now rests and where friends may call after 7 p.m. this evening. Rev. H. E. Shiffer, pastor of the Rock Falls Christian church, will conduct the services and committal will follow in the Rock Falls cemetery.

Grover Lane was a life-long resident of this community. He was born March 4, 1888, on a farm in Hume township, the youngest of seven children of the late Charles and Susan Wroten Lane. He was the last of his family, three brothers and three sisters having preceded him in death.

On Dec. 29, 1909, Mr. Lane married Miss Sara A. Levering, who survives him, together with the couple's two daughters, Maxine, wife of Richard Meisel, and Dorothy, wife of George Hunsberger, both of Rock Falls. Four grandchildren grieve the loss of one who was their constant companion and devoted to their welfare.

Mr. Lane was employed for the past quarter century at the R B & W Co. in Rock Falls. A devoted husband and father, his inerests were largely centered in home and family. He was a member of Rock Falls lodge, No. 936, AF & AM.