GENE "PETE" LANE
Dec. 26, 1939-June 23, 2013
MOUNT OLIVE -- Gene Parker "Pete" Lane, 73, passed away early Sunday morning, June 23, at Vidant Pitt Hospital.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, June 27, at 7 p.m. at Tyndall Funeral Home, with visitation afterward. Entombment will be Friday, June 28, at 11 a.m. at Maplewood Cemetery in Mount Olive.
Family and friends are also being received at the residence.
Mr. Lane, a graduate of Goldsboro High School, had served in the United States Air Force.
He had been employed with the state highway department, first as a bookkeeper and later as an equipment operator.
Too, he had been a parts clerk, and at one time, was part owner of a gas station. In later years, he operated his own backhoe service.
He was the son of the late William Penn Lane and Julia Josie Parker Lane, and was also preceded in death by several siblings.
Survivors include his wife, Julia Elmore Anders Lane; a daughter, Kimberly Lane Bowers and husband, Mark, of Fuquay-Varina; two sons, Kevin Lane and wife, Susan, of Louisburg and Kenton Lane and wife, Karen, of Mount Olive; a brother, Dave Rose Lane and wife, Peggy, of Sleepy Creek at Dudley; three stepsons, Jerome Anders and wife, Diana, of Pikeville, James Anders and wife, Cheryl, of Pikeville and David Anders and wife, Sharon, of Beulaville; eight grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; two stepgreat-grandchildren; and an honorary granddaughter.
Memorial gifts may be made to Peace Baptist Church, P.O. Box 331, Calypso, N.C., 28325.
A Tyndall service.
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Published in Obituaries on June 26, 2013 1:48 PM