He had suffered a stroke April 12, 1982.
A lifelong area resident Mr. Drane was born Dec. 29, 1913 in Chester, West Virginia, a son Larry R. Drane and Minnie Cornell Drane.
He was a foremen at the former Taylor, Smith and Taylor Company in Chester, and retired as a foreman in 1978 from the Homer Laughlin China Company in Newell.
Mr. Drane was a member of the First United Methodit Church, its board of evangelism and was a trustee of the church.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Ruth Prescott Drane, whom he married Nov. 20, 1941, survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Frank (Virginia) Buckley of Wellsville, Mrs. Elinor Diehl of Columbus and Mrs. John (Charmaine) Wilkinson of Cheektowoga, New York, and a brother, Paul E. Drane of Leola, Pa.
Services are to held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Dawson Funeral Home by the Rev. Michael Gibson.
Burial is to be in Riverview Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday
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Thurs.
Mar. 24, 1983
Eveing Review
He had suffered a stroke April 12, 1982.
A lifelong area resident Mr. Drane was born Dec. 29, 1913 in Chester, West Virginia, a son Larry R. Drane and Minnie Cornell Drane.
He was a foremen at the former Taylor, Smith and Taylor Company in Chester, and retired as a foreman in 1978 from the Homer Laughlin China Company in Newell.
Mr. Drane was a member of the First United Methodit Church, its board of evangelism and was a trustee of the church.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Ruth Prescott Drane, whom he married Nov. 20, 1941, survivors include three sisters, Mrs. Frank (Virginia) Buckley of Wellsville, Mrs. Elinor Diehl of Columbus and Mrs. John (Charmaine) Wilkinson of Cheektowoga, New York, and a brother, Paul E. Drane of Leola, Pa.
Services are to held Monday at 11 a.m. at the Dawson Funeral Home by the Rev. Michael Gibson.
Burial is to be in Riverview Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday
*****
Thurs.
Mar. 24, 1983
Eveing Review
Family Members
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William R. Drane
1902–1964
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Mary Elizabeth Drane Niswonger
1904–1943
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Hazel Bell Drane
1908–1937
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Ruth Virginia Drane Buckley
1912–1993
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Paul Elsworth Drane
1916–2000
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Lawrence A. Drane
1918–1965
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Richard Earl Drane
1920–1920
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Elinore Mae Drane Diehl
1921–2001
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Helen Louise Drane Ward
1923–1975
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Charmaine Drane Wilkinson
1927–2001
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