Obituary of Judith Elizabeth Brugh Lane

Judy Lane died mid-morning on Tuesday, October 25, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Funeral services will be at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1623 Carmel Road, Charlotte, the week of Thanksgiving next month. She will be inturned in the church columbarium. Judy was born in Chicago, Illinois, June 2, 1937, daughter of Carol Brugh and Emery Brugh. She grew up in White Plains, New York and attended Duke University where she was co-ed editor of the Duke Chronicle, earned an English degree, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

After Duke, she worked in New York City as a proof-reader and then editor to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich books, where she worked as an editor and designer, doing the initial design for the Warner grammer books series.

She met her beloved husband Jerry Lane in Thailand, where after a whirl-wind romance they got engaged after eight days, getting married in New York, and then settling in Missouri, and had a long and successful marriage.

When her children were born, she was a stay at mother. Once the kids were a bit older, she started an early desk-top publishing business, Language Arts.

She served the Episcopal church in a variety of lay ministries at the parish and diocesan level; she enjoyed being a grandmother to six grandchildren,

Surviving her are her son, Christopher Lane (Kushlani) and her daughter Julie Lane Frederiksen (David) of Wilmington, and grandchildren Olivia, Zoe, Eve, Kaden, Ben and Alex; her two sisters Tish Duffy of Greenville, SC and Saralyn O'Keefe of Austin, TX.