Pauline Katherine “Penny” Lane

Pauline Katherine “Penny” Lane was born June 15, 1914 on the family farm near Optima to George and Lydia (Steinle) Herbel, her earliest memories were of being carried by her father from the dugout to the one-room building that was her family’s bedroom. Penny cherished her childhood memories of growing up in a loving extended family in the Oklahoma Panhandle. She attended Buffalo School and went to Hooker High School one year before Optima added a high school from which she graduated in 1933. Penny attended the fall, spring and summer terms at Panhandle A&M College in Goodwell before beginning her teaching career at a little country school 12 miles from home for an eight-month year at $65 a month. After teaching at three other rural schools and earning her degree at Panhandle A&M, she began teaching seventh grade in Hooker in 1941 until 1947 when she moved to Seattle, Wash. Penny was one of the first remedial reading teachers, creating her own classroom curriculum in Fall City, Wash. She continued her education through the University of Washington and taught reading in the Snoqualmie School District until her retirement in 1978. Penny was also a lifetime student, rarely passing up the opportunity to learn a new hobby, craft or skill. She especially enjoyed writing and created hundreds of handmade ornaments. She married C.E. “Ed” Lane Dec. 31, 1955 in North Bend, Wash. and enjoyed being part of his large family and being a grandmother. He preceded her in death, Nov. 1, 1988. In 2000, she made the move back to Hooker, remaining in her own home until August 2007. A member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hooker, she was also a member of Ladies Aid LWML Society. Preceding her in death were her husband, Ed; three sisters and their husbands, Viola and Alex Hofferber, Leona and Dave Dorsch and Marie and J.C. Burton; and one brother, Albert Herbel.Survivors include one step-daughter, Wanda Melin and her husband, Don of North Bend, Wash.; four step-grandchildren, Loraine Neal of Snoqualmie, Wash., LeRoy Bergstrom and his wife, Laurie of North Bend, Wash., Cheryl Engleheart and her husband, Bob of Lemoore, Calif. and John Peterson and his wife, Janice of Lemoore, Calif.; eight step-great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Forte and her husband Brian, Michael Dollinter, Brandon Dollinter, Brett Bergstrom, Tyler Bergstrom, Allison Allen and her husband, Troy, Erin and Rico Engleheart-Castro and Alyssa Melin; ÿ ve step-great-grandchildren, Olivia, Preston, Hayden, Owen and Avery; one sister-in-law, Helen Herbel of Hooker; and many nieces and nephews.Family and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service in her honor at the Mt Si Senior Citizen Center, 411 Main Ave, North Bend, WA, Saturday June 13, 2009 at 12:30 pm.

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