LANE, O. Bruce - Putnam

Source: Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec 1975 p 6

Bainbridge, Ind – O. Bruce Lane, 94, Bainbridge, former Indiana state senator, educator and farmer, died yesterday in Greencastle nursing home. A Republican, he was senator from Putnam and Montgomery counties from 1933-1949 and was elected Republican caucus chair for the 1939 General Assembly. He frequently served as chaplain of the senate. In the late 40s he was dean of the senate. Mr. Lane was author of the law regulation the personnel of the Indiana State board of Education. In 1939, he introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of school textbook adoptions in Indiana. The Senate conducted a probe of the allegations. During the late 1940s he was a member of Gov. Ralph Gates’ policy committee on roads, agriculture, education and county and township business. Mr. Lane was graduated from Purdue in 1905 and a former school teacher. He had been a high school principal for 12 years, heading the former Monroe Township HS and Bainbridge HS. In 1909 he organized Bainbridge’s first school basketball team. He was charter president of the Bainbridge Lions Club. The oldest member of the Bainbridge Christian Church, he had served in most lay capacities of the church and Sunday School. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Hopkins Funeral home here with burial in Bainbridge Cemetery.  – kbz