This obituary has been revised from the original obituary. The current obituary has been corrected to accurately state the marital status of Mike Lane and Denise Lane, who were divorced in 2007.
-Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home
Ross Eugene Lane, age 90 of Baldwin City, KS passed away peacefullyon August 29th, 2023 with his family by his side.
The visitation and funeral mass will be on Wednesday, September 6,2023 at Annunciation Catholic Church, 740 North 6th Street, Baldwin City,KS. A Rosary will be said at 9:30 AM, followed by a visitation from 10:00AM with the Funeral Mass, that will begin at 11:00 AM.
Ross was born November 24, 1932 to Curtis and Beatrice Lane in Leoti,Kansas. Ross attended elementary school and high school in Leotigraduating from Wichita County High School with the class of 1952. Rossplayed football, basketball and track at Leoti but his best sport by far wasbasketball. He loved basketball and enjoyed the days when three of hissons were all high school basketball coaches in Kansas.
After high school, Ross served his country during the Korean War from1953 to 1955. Following his military service Ross worked for his brother,Robert (Dutch) Lane who owned a construction company.Ross married his sweetheart, Mary Kathleen Renner (Kathy), on October19, 1957 at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Scott City, KS and they wereable to raise 4 boys and celebrate 65 years together.In 1963 Ross accepted a job with the Leoti USD 467 School Districtwhere he became the Director of Buildings and Grounds.
Ross served USD 467 until 1976 when he became the Director of Facilities at BakerUniversity. Ross loved his job at Baker where he spent the next 20 yearsbefore retiring in 1996.Ross loved working with and coaching his boys. Some of his bestmemories were coaching the Black Caps little league baseball team inLeoti. Ross also coached Junior and Senior Babe Ruth baseball when thefamily moved to Baldwin in 1976. After Ross retired, he loved spendingtime with his wife and family and their cabin at Lone Star Lake.
It was his happy place and our family gathering place for many years and Dadmade it special. He was a grill master and the meals he prepared arelegendary. Ross also loved spending time at the Baldwin Golf coursewhere he mowed and showed off his grilling expertise for men’s night andtournaments. He never missed one of his boy’s ballgames. He walked thesidelines in football and was always there to cheer us on.Ross treasured his friendships and teammates from his days in Leoti. Heplayed on a great team his senior year and could still name off thestarting five until the end. He was a proud Jayhawk and never missed aKU basketball game. He also loved the many people in Baldwin whoworked for him at Baker during his 20 years as Head of Facilities.
He was a proud member of Annunciation Catholic Church in Baldwin City andserved in the Knights of Columbus. Ross is survived by his wife Kathy who is in Ottawa, Kansas at RockCreek Assisted Living.
Ross and Kathy were blessed with 4 sons; Mike Lane, grandson Matt, granddaughter Kayley, and great granddaughters Lucy & Katie; Russ (Annette) Lane, grandson Tyler (Jami) Lane and greatgrandson Carter, great granddaughters Hannah and Lauren,granddaughter Jessica (Ross) Knutson and great granddaughter Sloanand great grandsons Cohen and Landon, granddaughter Samantha (Bo) Tiller and great granddaughter Rosalie, granddaughter Abigail (Tanner) Hughes and great granddaughter June; Rob (Nancy) Lane andgranddaughters Jordan and Teresa and Grant (Lori) Lane, grandsonsJaylen, Jaron and Joseph and granddaughter Jocelyn (Tom) Mailloux andgreat grandson Leo. Ross is also survived by his older sister NevadaParker of Leoti, Kansas and ex-daughter-in-law Denise Lane.
Ross was predeceased by his parents Curtis and Beatrice Lane andsiblings Blythe (Leonard) Tripp, Lois (Wayne) Funk, Margaret (Gene) Kirk,Robert (Lottie) Lane, Thomas (Leatrice) Lane, bother-in- law JamesParker, Kathryn (Wayne) Roberts and a granddaughter Kimber RoseLane who passed away on January 10, 2021.
The Lane family would like to thank the many nurses and caregivers whohave cared for our Dad these last five years. Vintage Park in Baldwin andRock Creek in Ottawa have been very kind to our family.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Mother Teresa Charitable Trust sent incare of Lamb-Roberts-Price Funeral Home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin City,KS, 66006. Online condolences may be sent to the family throughwww.lamb-roberts.com.