Ann Orgain Lane

Ann Orgain Lane died in Providence, RI, on Thanksgiving Day. She was seventy-seven years old. Ann's parents were Dr. Edward S. Orgain and Ann Lewis Orgain, both deceased in Durham, NC. Her childhood years were spent in Virginia Beach in summers, her favorite place, and in the former girl's school, Stuart Hall, in Staunton, Virginia. Her beloved beach cottage was famously and sadly displayed in the centerfold of Life Magazine in 1960 after a Nor'easter broke her favorite place in half. Ann was married to John D Lane, Jr., North Attleboro, MA, for 54 years. She is survived by one son, Christopher John, forty-two, and her husband. She also left her brother Stewart Orgain and his wife Trina Orgain. Ann and Christopher had lived with John in Winston-Salem, Midland TX, and in North Attleboro. Ann was a beloved part of Waters Church in North Attleboro where her husband has served as an elder for more than a decade.  The funeral service for Ann will be held at Waters Church, 57 John Dietsch Square in North Attleboro at 10:00 am Friday, December 1. All gifts will support the Waters Church Christian Academy which will open in 2024. Ann was very excited about the opening of this school, and she wanted to contribute in any way she could, though she was retired from teaching due to the medical challenges she suffered for the final eight years of her life. Ann had moved to Midland, Texas in 1982 to be part of a new church planting in the city which is at the center of the Permian Basin in West Texas. While John worked as Site Training Coordinator at Texas Instruments, Ann was trained in a multisensory, structured language approach to helping children who could not process syntax in written language. Christopher was one year old when they moved there. John moved with Texas Instruments to New England in 1993 when the Semiconductor Division was moved to Taiwan. An ardent teacher of children and adults with severe reading difficulties, Ann loved the twenty-plus years she spent as a teacher applying a highly structured strategy. Ann had been trained in Texas and in Massachusetts, receiving a Masters Degree from American International University. Besides raising her son Christopher, she loved her two-decade plus teaching career more than anything. In her final year of teaching, she drove 110 miles per day to teach a small number of children how to read. Many long-time friends will be traveling from Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina to be at her funeral service. She was loved for her kind, nurturing, and witty personality. Numerous friends will be coming who have loved Ann for nearly half a century. She was a very special person who will be greatly missed by her husband, son, brother, and friends. Ann truly looked forward to "being in Jesus's arms," with tremendous faith that God was preparing a place for her in heaven. She loved Jesus and her heavenly Father and was ready to go home when she took her last breath. Praise His name! We sow in tears, but we reap in joy ...
For additional information or to send the family a written expression of sympathy, please visit www.dyer-lakefuneralhome.com . Arrangements are under the direction of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, 161 Commonwealth Avenue, Village of Attleboro Falls, North Attleboro. (508) 695-0200.
Lovingly written by her husband, John.