Alice Bartlett Lane
11/21/1923 - 11/25/2003 | Marker: Column 16 Row 17
Alice Bartlett Lane of Easton, MD, died at her home on Tuesday, November 25, 2003. She was 80. Born November 21, 1923, in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of the late Francis Gilpin and Ruth Murray Bartlett. She was the granddaughter of The Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray, the first elected Episcopal Bishop of the United States, and his wife Clara Hunsicker Murray, and the granddaughter of Gen. John Kemp Bartlett, former Attorney General of the State of Maryland, and his wife Mary Garrett Dixon Bartlett. She was a graduate of Hannah Moore Academy and Knox College. After college, she was employed by the athletic department of Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore.
A member and past President of The Harbor Club of the Eastern Shore, she was also past President and life member of the Garden Club of the Eastern Shore, Founder and past President of the Talbot Kennel Club, an American Kennel Club accredited dog judge, a member of the Tred Avon Yacht Club and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, past Board Member of The Dixon House, The Country School and The Talbot County Humane Society. Her passion in life was sailing and visiting Nova Scotia.
Mrs. Lane is survived by her husband, William Lowry Lane, whom she married May 15, 1948; four children, Henry Downing Lane, William Lowry Lane, Jr., Thomas Dixon Lane and Francis Bartlett Lane; nine grandchildren; and her brother, Francis Gilpin Bartlett, Jr. She was predeceased by a brother, John Gardner Murray Bartlett.
Memorial service was December 2, 2003, at Third Haven.