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 | Johnny L. Lane May 22, 1929 – July 21, 2012 services directed by Dugan-Kramer Funeral Chapel |
| Johnny L. Lane May 22, 1929 – July 21, 2012 Johnny L. Lane, 83, of Scottsbluff died Saturday July 21, 2012 after a courageous one-and-a-half year battle with palliative cancer. A funeral service was July 30 at Dugan-Kramer Funeral Chapel with Pastor Ken Trevithick officiating. Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery. Memorials can be made to The Rock Church or Festival of Hope. Tributes of sympathy may be left at www.dugankramer.com. John was born to Horace A. “Rosie” and Irene M. (Strube) Lane on May 22, 1929 in Scottsbluff at the Methodist Hospital located on Broadway. Johnny grew up and attended many schools in the area due to his father’s employment as a ‘ditch rider” and also for EMPA. After school John worked at the old potato cellar, and for many farmers and ranchers in the Panhandle of Nebraska and Wyoming. In January 1949 he went to work for Miller Brothers in Utica Neb. There Johnny found something he truly loved doing, which was working with horses. John broke horses, training them and showing them. Of the many horses he worked with, Tony’s Trouble aka “Tige,” was special to him and John felt great pride the year Tige won the Stock Horse State Championship. John was never afraid of work or trying something new. He served in the National Guard, worked for the fire department in Melbeta, Simplot Soil Builders and Lockwood in Gering for many years. During campaigns he worked for the Western Sugar in Scottsbluff, Bayard, Mitchell, but primarily in the Gering plant. For the better part of his life he farmed and owned a custom swathing business and that is where he spent most of his summer days. John was blessed with four children that he adored: Yolanda (Loni), Dustin, Pamela, and Roxanne. John and Betty divorced, however he kept a close friendship with her and later with her husband Dow. In August of 1979 John met the woman he would spend the next 34 years with – Betty J. Rusk Van Pelt of Minatare. With this union John received an additional three step-children that he never thought of any less than his own: Crystal, Billy and Roy. On Feb. 29, 1980 they celebrated the Leap Year by making their union official in a ceremony at home with family and friends. When they married the two often worked side by side. John loved to travel and truly believed “life was a journey not a destination” and that journey sill lives on in all that knew him. In 1994 John and Betty took on two business adventures, first opening Lane’s Nebraska Popcorn Co., which they later sold after becoming the resident managers of Scottsfield Estates, which they managed and called home until illness forced John into retirement in 2011. John is survived in by his wife of 34 years: Betty Lane of Gering; daughters: Loni Jones and Pam Trevino, both of Gillette, Wyo. and Roxanne Martinez of Scottsbluff; sisters: Lois Arland of Walla Walla, Wash. and Kim (Stuart) Wostenberg of Alliance; brother: John Loutzenhiser, of Alliance; step-children: Crystal Berry of Nixa, Mo. and Roy (Monica) Van Pelt, of Snyder, Okla.; grandchildren: Justin Lane, Aubrey Soule, Mallory Trevino, Shelby Lane, Kassidy Lane, Lexie Martinez, Keaton Lane, Joshua Martinez, and twins Savannah and Sarah Martine; grandchildren by marriage: Jamie, Brittni and Jordynn Van Pelt, Nick, Eric and Jenny Lujan and eight great-grandchildren. Preceding him in death were his parents; brother: Gerald Steven “Bud” Lane; grandmother: Emma Lane; infant sister Brenda Lane; son: Dustin Lane; and stepson: Billy Van Pelt. | |
