Elaine Clara (Anderson) Kane, 81, LaBelle, Fla., formerly of Mitchell, died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in her home at LaBelle.
Funeral services were Wednesday in Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Mitchell. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Mitchell. A prayer service was held Tuesday evening in Bittner Funeral Chapel, Mitchell.
She was born May 22, 1931 at Storla to Leonard and Edna (Bibler) Anderson.
She attended Thompson School through the eighth grade and graduated from Letcher High School in 1949.
She attended Rock Valley College.
On Aug. 17, 1949, she married Lowell Kane at Artesian.
They began their lives in Letcher, then Mitchell and then moved to Rockford, Ill., in 1955.
They raised their five children in Rockford. She worked 10 years at Riverside Nursing Home.
Lowell and Elaine traveled and spent summers in Savanna, Ill. before retiring in LaBelle.
She is survived by her husband of 62 years, Lowell; three daughters, Saundra Reed, New York City, Susan Kane, LaBelle, and Pamela (Brian) Fleming, Machensey, Ill.; two sons, Tom (Penny) Kane, Byron, Ill., and Tim (Rachel) Kane, Machensey; 16 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; three sisters, Corrine (Lavern) Larson, Mitchell, Eldean Stekl, Mitchell, and Thelma Tastad; three sisters-in-law, Kathleen Anderson, Connie (Dick) Lidman and Karen (Gary) Krantz; and one brother-in-law, Mike (Donna) Kane.
She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Peggy; her parents and one brother, Archie Anderson.