daddylane's Cancer Blog
May 10, 2008
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We would like to express our deepest and most heartfelt gratitude for your love, support and kindness during this difficult time in our lives.
We are so glad to have this forum to be able to share with Daddy Lane’s friends and family about his legacy.
He is an inspiration to us all whether you knew him for years or recently fell upon this blog.
Momma Lane points out how Pop-Pop served the community. She describes it as a thread that runs through his life and Annette says that she had just talked to Daddy Lane about that with him just yesterday. Annette spent a lot of quality time with him yesterday. They had some special time. Father Daughter time. Nothing can beat that.
This information. The information of OUR loss. It is going to have its impact on OUR lives. Today is a sad day.
Yesterday Daddy Lane was lucid invariably through all of the pain that he was in. When Jack came into the room with the boys to say goodbye Dad he lit up. When friends called upon him in the evening he was bright when possible.
We plan on staying in touch with folks through this forum to let everyone know about the plans we will make for a fun ass spanky party to celebrate the LOVE and POSITIVITY of Daddy Lane. We want to celebrate people (when the time is right we will be able to do so, now we are full of sorrow and will morn our loss) so lets keep posting here and showing the other folks on this here blog the amazing community that thankfully Ms. Jill has gotten going for us.
With lots of LOVE!
Timothy, Annette and Momma Lane!
PS we will post a surprise fun photo in the near future so stay posted folks. An extra special thanks to the people that have been patient with the “surge blogging” that went down yesterday if you actually read the blogs in the order that they were posted. If it was too hard for those that did not, check out the photos some time soon. Daddy Lane wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thank You All!, 
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06.22.08 - 
Thanks for your support -
You all are very positive and I know that has to be hard at moments in this time .
You are all much stronger people than I could ever be .
Love
Evy
Blessing to all.
Thank you for sharing your feeling with us and letting us support you and your family.
I know he is looking down and saying”you did a good job.”
He will be missed, but not forgotten.
Love to all Sherri
Love to you all. Just want to add my thanks for the lessons you and Jerry taught about life, death, and love. I will hug my family and re-commit to hanging in through everything that comes our way. You guys are awesome.
We will miss uncle Jerry so much. We have not seen him since Thanksgiving ‘07. He is one of those people that you want to know and have in your life. No one will ever forget him. He is at peace and out of pain, that is the best thing for him, although we all want him alive being out of pain is best for him. He is no longer suffering
With Love,
Maura and Madison Navarro (and Family)
One of my last memories of Uncle Jerry is when he, and Tanta Babe came to Michigan with us. Uncle Jerry and I wrote in the sand with long sticks. From what my mother tells me he enjoyed spending time with me, and talked about it often with others. He took some great pictures of us that we still have. Our lives will never be the same without him.
-Madison Navarro
My heart goes out to all of you. Jerry was such a compassionate, generous, exemplary human being. And what a close, loving family he had, not to mention tons of good friends! He will not be forgotten. Keep strong, and love one another.
Joyce Benson
Heaven has a new Angle…rest in piece Jerry!
And, bless his family for always being there for him through the toughest of time. He was loved and he loved…now he is in no pain and is smiling down on you…he is happy…
I have not started grieving the loss of Uncle Jerry until today; and I am quite sad but SO moved by and grateful for my Lane family. Uncle Jerry has always been amazing for so many reasons and his death was no exception. The last time I was with Uncle Jerry, he taught me the proper way to open a champagne bottle. I had the opportunity to open one on Sunday morning, Mother’s Day. And it was the most beautiful, spiritually connected moment, when after sharing the story with my breakfast mates, we raised our glasses and toasted Jerry. I know he was smiling; I could feel it. I will forever think of him with every glass of champagne I sip or bottle I open. What a privilege it is for me to be able to have that piece of him for the rest of my days. He loved his wine and champagne and I loved him.
May the Lord’s peace be with us all.
Cousin Cadden
Jerry was my longest tenure and best friend. We met in Hialeah, Florida where we grow up. We were in Boy Scouts together, recieved our Eagle designation together and went to Junior High School and high school at Miami Jackson High. Jerry graduated one year before me in 1956.
Later we both attended the University of Miami and held jobs in the summer working for the Dade County Parks Department.
Jerry went to the seminary and I started my career selling insurance and retirement annuities. My first management job was in Denver and Jerry came with me deciding that the seminary was no longer for him and that he wanted to see the west.
We worked together and I told him that I had met a woman in one of the public schools at which I was conducting a retirement planning seminar. I suggested that he call her to make an appointment to sell her a tax sheltered annuity and, if she bought, ask her out for a date. Little did both of us know that she would marry him for over 40 years and produce two wonderful children that affectionately call me Uncle Mike to this day.
I got a promotion, moved back to Florida and Jerry went to law school and started his legal career.
We always stayed connected throughout the decades, often comparing our civic and community volunteer activism. We would see each other when we could in various cities and sometimes planned our business trips around when we could hook up.
Jerry and I started a “guys canoe trip” a couple of decades ago and have taken trips all over America and had many adventures.
He was brave enough to go on our last trip in May 2007 as we kayaked rivers aroung Mammoth Cave National park and explored the caverns.
My live has been so interwoven with him that I hardly know how to express my loss of my best friend.
Along with two other life long friends, Bill Miller and Bob Webber, we traveled to Silver Spring just a month before Jerry’s death and spend four days with him, going to Irish and Scottish pubs, sight seeing and sitting around reminiscing and telling lies.
He was a good and honorable man and his legacy will remain in his children and grandchildren. The world has been a better place because of Jerry.