Obit: Lane, John (? - 1961)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Lane, Mock, Ward, Wiernasz

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) July 27, 1961

Lane, John (? - 24 July 1961)

Victims of a fiery truck-convertible accident near Durand shortly before 10 p.m. Monday which took the lives of four, two Thorp area men will be buried in separate services today and Friday.

The men were trapped in the cab of the Wiernasz truck as it burned after the crash. 

Services for John Lane, 19, of Stanley, who was with Wiernasz in the cab of his truck, are scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday from the Plombon Funeral Home in Stanley, with the Rev. Cecil Ward, pastor of the Methodist church there, in charge.  Burial will be made in the Eidsvold Cemetery, west of Thorp.

Lane was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lane of Rt. 3, Stanley. Also surviving are: four brothers, James, Edward, Steven and Robert, all at home; four sisters, Joyce, Patricia, Carol, and Beverly, also at home; a grandfather, Fred Mock of Chippewa Falls; and a grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Mock of Osseo.