Annice Lane

ANNICE LANE

Mount Vernon

Annice Harman Lane, of Mount Vernon, passed from this life on Feb. 25, 2017, at her home at the age of 96. Mass of Christian Burial: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Mount Vernon. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday with vigil at 7 p.m. and one hour prior to the funeral at the church. Burial will follow the funeral in Mount Vernon Cemetery. Arrangements with Stewart Baxter Funeral & Memorial Services, Mount Vernon.

She is survived by her husband, John Lane of Mount Vernon; eight children, Mary (Ray) Finn of Cascade, Patricia (Gordy) Anderson of Cedar Rapids, John (Jennifer) Lane of Vinton, Charles (Nancy) Lane of Muscatine, William (Lois) Lane of Swisher, Catherine (Gary) Eiben of Colesburg, Elizabeth (Allan) Takes of Cascade and Bernadette of Chicago; 24 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; and four nieces and nephews.

Annice was born March 19, 1920, in Lisbon, Iowa, to Bertha (Groll) and Harry Harman. She grew up in Lisbon, where her father raised and sold fruits and vegetables and operated a steam shovel. She was a graduate of Lisbon High School, Class of 1938. Annice was part of the World War II effort and worked from 1942 to 1944 in Stratford, Conn., at United Aircraft, tracking parts used to build military airplanes. She married John Lane of Mount Vernon on May 28, 1942, at First Congregational Church in Stratford. They would have celebrated 75 years of marriage this May. Annice and John were both converts to Catholicism; John in March 1946 on the island of Guam and Annice in December 1946 in Colo, Iowa.

Following the end of World War II, Annice and John moved to Temple Hill, Iowa (rural Cascade), where they farmed for 41 years with a black Angus cow-calf operation. She ran all of the business and financial aspects of the farm and household while her husband had employment off the farm that involved time away from home.

Annice always had a large vegetable garden that yielded much produce for the family during the summer months, as well as through the winter with extensive freezing and canning. She enjoyed her flower gardens as well. Most of all, she devoted her life and love to her husband, the raising of her children, and to being a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

She will be remembered most for her gentle, quiet, caring manner, infinite kindness, and patience and devotion to family.

Preceding her in death were her parents; brother, Glenn Harman; sister, Ruth Krumm; son, Thomas Michael Lane; granddaughter, Melissa Eiben; and daughter-in-law, Beth (Charlie) Lane.

Memorial gifts may be made to Hospice of Mercy or Northeast Linn County Meals on Wheels.

Please share your support and memories with Annice's family on her tribute wall at www.stewartbaxter.com under obituaries.