Obit: Lane, Johnny D. #2 (1942 - 1961)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Lane, Wiernasz, Moch

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 07/27/1961

Lane, Johnny D. #2 (11 FEB 1942 - 24 JUL 1961)

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 Friday afternoon, July 28th at Plombon Funeral Home at Stanley, Wis., for Johnny D. Lane, 19, fatally burned int eh truck of John Wiernasz following an accident on Hiwghway 25 about four miles south of Durand in Buffalo County Monday night. Rev. Cecil Ward will officiate at the service and interment will take place in the Eidsvold Cemetery.

Johnny David Lane was born in Durand, Wis. on Feb. 11, 1942, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lane. He lived in Durand until 1951 and then moved to Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) with his parents, where they resided until moving to Eidsvold in 1955. Johnny completed his freshman year at the Stanley High School. He had been employed by John Wiernasz for the past two years.

Besides his parents, he is survived by four sisters, Joyce, Patricia, Carol, and Beverly, all at home, his maternal grandfather, Fred of Chippewa Falls and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Moch of Osseo, Wis.