OBIT: Robert Hay LANE, 2003, formerly of Berlin, Somerset County, PA
  
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    ROBERT HAY LANE
      March 30, 1922 - April 2, 2003
    
      Robert Hay Lane, 81, formerly of Berlin, passed away in Hobbs, NM
  on Wednesday, April 2, 2003.
      Robert was born in the family home on South Street on March 30,
  1922 to George Franklin Lane (1891-1937) and Erma Hay Lane
  (1888-1984).
      He was the great-great-great-grandson of Pioneer Simon Hay who
  settled in Somerset County from Germany in about 1767.  Robert had an
  older brother, George Franklin Lane, Jr., who preceded him in death in
  1976.  Funeral services were April 5 with burial in Socorro Cemetery
  in New Mexico.
      He graduated from Berlin Brothersvalley High School where he was
  editor of the yearbook, on the basketball team, and played in the
  Fife and Drum Corps. In 1940, he left Berlin to attend New Mexico
  School of Mining and Technology in Socorro.  His education was
  interrupted to serve in the United States Air Force during World War
  II where he proudly served his country in France and Italy.  He was a
  Staff Sergeant with the Bomb Maintenance Tech 683 of the 1257th Army
  Air Force and the 484th Bomb Group.  After his honorable discharge he
  graduated with degrees in Mining Engineering and Geology.  He worked
  in potash mines in Carlsbad and Hobbs, and Canada, and then retired
  from Kerr-McGee Potash Company in 1992.  He was active in the Masonic
  Lodge, Shrine Clowns, a member of the Presbyterian Church, American
  Legion, VFW Post 3274, and Fraternal Order of Eagles.  He loved
  gardening, hunting, fishing, attending professional golf tournaments,
  and building radio controlled model airplanes.  In later years, he won
  many ribbons in the county and state fairs for his needlework (long
  stitch and embroidery). 
      Robert married Catherine Clarke on September 14, 1948 in
  Socorro.  She preceded him in death in 1993.
      He is survived by four children (and their spouses): Robert
  Clarke Lane of Coppell, Texas; Martha Lane of Albuquerque, NM;
  Barbara Lane of Hobbs; and Clare Lane Nickel of Abilene, Texas; and
  six grandchildren.
      He was a devoted father as well as a loving and generous
  grandfather.  He is survived locally by cousin Donald W. Hay of
  Berlin.
    
    The New Republic, April 24, 2003
    
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