This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LANE Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZaB.2ACE/1410 Message Board Post: Daily Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - April 18, 1994 Daily Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - April 18, 1994 Deceased Name: R.D. Lane LANE, R.D., 87, of OKC, This is about my dad. Today he began his first day of eternity, doing something he always wanted, playing golf at the "Master's" Course in Augusta, GA. They say it's heavenly there! Dad was born in Bradford, PA, November 14, 1906. His family migrated to Tulsa in 1918 as his father was a Plant Design Superintendent and moved w/the work. R.D. began his oil business career with Shell in 1928 as a gas tester. A year later he traveled to OKC to accept a chemist job with Coline Oil. In 1942 he joined Phillips Petroleum Co. and spent the next 30 years in various administrative positions culminating with Mid-Cont. Regional Material Supv. Dad was an athlete. He was captain of his H.S. football team, a marathon runner and swimmer, a two year starter in basketball for the Univ. of Tulsa, and the city tennis champion. That's when he first met Alice (mom). She was the state doubles champ. Their racquets crossed on the OKC tennis courts & it was definitely a "love"! match. They were married in 1933 and recently celebrated their 61st Wedding Anniversary. R.D.'s main athletic interest switched to golf in his later years and he was first able to "shoot his age" at 76 at Trosper Park. His favorite golf outing was the daily scramble w/Charlie Martinez and the boys at the Lakeside Golf Course. He loved it. Two other "loves" of his were Notre Dame and a good cigar (he smoked an average of 6 per day for 70 years!). Dad always wanted to attend Notre Dame, but he didn't have the money since his father died young and he had to support his mom, brother and sister. So, 25 years later, he did the next best thing by helping me pay my way there. Dad was a good person as well as a good Christian. Until his illness, to my knowledge he never missed Sund ay Mass in 75 years. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church. During the past 11 years dad encountered a multitude of medical problems which after some 15 major surgeries, finally got him. All th! rough this period mom and my sister Beverly sacrifi ced their own acti vities to take care of him. It was particularly difficult for sis since she had to travel back and forth from her home in Tallahassee, FL, for stays of weeks at a time. But she and mom hung in there, day by day, year by year. One major tragedy occurring during this period was the death of my brother Mike at age 40. He and mother were real buddies and bowled and bingoed nightly. R.D. passed away April 15. Some of the others who love him include 5 granddaughters and 5 great-grandsons, al ong with numerous friends, neighbors and relatives. Come September, I have a feeling dad will again be watching what he liked best, Notre Dame football, when Lou Holtz and the boys take the field in South Bend, I think he'll be sitting somewhere up there in the bleachers, shouting for them to "win one more for"... well, you know who. And we will miss him so much. His son, Charles. Services will be at 2:00 Monday, April 17 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will be at Resurrection Cemetery! .