Doyle Lane's wife, Patricia, just advised me that Doyle has passed away,
and sent me the following obit [condensed].

Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Doyle H. Lane, 70, died Monday, June 14th, at his home in Middletown
Springs, Vermont.  The cause of death was cancer.  He was born March
3, 1940, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Walter and Laural Lane.  He
graduated from Whittier College in California in 1960 and then joined
his family to help his parents create a successful summer resort on
Kooteney Lake, British Columbia.  He then moved to Vancouver, BC, where
he worked at the Children's Aid Society, Shell Oil, and Xerox.  In the
mid-1970s he opened The Player Piano Center in Vancouver, BC.  In 1978
he moved his business to Hillsborough, North Carolina, where it became
the Antique Music and Wheels, a AAA attraction.

In l985 Doyle Lane and his then wife, Priscilla, moved to Middletown
Springs, Vermont, where they turned an old Victorian mansion into
Priscilla's Victorian Inn.  In Vermont his business became Doyle Lane
Restorations, which was featured in a 1995 production of "Points North"
on Vermont ETV.  His world-wide clients included the City of Holland,
Michigan, and their Dutch Street Organ, given to the city by the people
of the Netherlands after World War II.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia McWilliams, whom he married in l996,
and two daughters from his previous marriage.  Cremation was private.
A celebration of Doyle's life will be held at a later date.

 [ Source: Rutland Herald, Rutland, VT, 17 June 2010.  Full article at
 [ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/rutlandherald/obituary.aspx?n=doyle-h-lane&pid=143611083