Obit: Blaney, Lon (1945 - 2013)

Contact: Audrey Roedl
Email: audrey@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Blaney, Schoenherr

----Source: The Loyal TRG (Loyal, Clark County, WI) 29 May 2013

Blaney, Lon (16 April 1945-22 May 2013)

Lon L. Blaney, 68, Loyal, passed away on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at Ministry Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., on Tuesday, May 28, at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Globe, Rural Neillsville. Rev. John Warmuth officiated. Burial followed in the Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Union Grove.

Lon Lee Blaney was born on April 16, 1945, in Chicago, Ill., the son of Lewis and Lydia (nee Schoenherr) Blaney. The family moved to Neillsville for a few years and then settled in Kenosha, where Lon graduated from Bradford High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on July 22, 1963, and served o0n the U.S.S. Hancock until his honorable discharge on Aug. 21, 1967. Lon returned to Kenosha, worked as a journeyman carpenter, and also enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserves, where he served for 20 years. He bought a farm near Fairchild, where he raised beef cattle for a few years. He then sold the farm and purchased a dairy farm northeast of Greenwood, which he farmed until 2003. He sold the farm and purchased the Star Lodge Motel, in Loyal, which he operated until the present time. Lon was a past member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Kenosha, and enjoyed baseball, hunting, fishing and spending time with family and friends.

He will be dearly missed by his mother, Lydia Blaney, Neillsville, one brother, Lyndell Blaney, Denver, Colo.; one sister, Lisa (Rev. Paul) Ibisch, Columbus; three nieces; four nephews; and other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his father, Lewis Blaney; and one brother, Larry Blaney.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.cuddiefh.com.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Loyal, assisted the family with arrangements.