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Velma Atherton Lane
Velma A. (Atherton) Lane,
62, died Sunday, January 16, 2005 at the Lawrence
Memorial Hospital in Medford, MA after along illness.
Velma was born and educated in Skowhegan, Maine, and
later moved to
the Boston area at the age of eighteen.
She meet her husband David
at the Center Club in Boston and the couple would marry on
July 17, 1977 in the South Church, in Boston.
They settled in Alliston
and she worked
for the Greater Boston Rehab in Cambridge for ten years. The
couple later moved to
Malden and bought a home and she worked for
Triangle, Inc for
five years as a assembly
worker, until
her health problems. She
had been a member of
the Center Club of Boston for over twenty years and the couple
shared a love for
photography. Velma had
lived in Malden for
the last sixteen years and
was previously from Allison
and Skowhegan, Maine.
She is survived by her husband David Lane of
Malden, her sisters Arlene Woods of Skowhegan, ME,
Patricia Woods of FL,
her brothers, Charles Burrill of VT, Leslie Burrill of Pittsfield, MA,
Francis Burrill & Phillip Burrill both of Maine.
She was preceded in death by her father Elgin Atherton, and
her mother Joyce Barrett.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, January 19,
2005 at 11:00 A.M. at the Weir MacCuish Golden Rule Funeral Home,
144 Salem St. Malden. Rev. Rod Rivera of First Church of the Nazarene will be
officiating. Burial
will be in the Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden.
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