Mrs. Gloria Varnell Keller Lane

September 4, 1939 - November 12, 2018

Funeral services for Mrs. Gloria Varnell Wimberly Keller Lane, 79, of Carthage will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, November 17, 2018 at Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Greg Rowe officiating. Burial will follow in the Old Center Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation with the family will be 9:00 a.m. prior to the service. Mrs. Gloria Varnell Wimberly Keller Lane was born September 4, 1939 in San Augustine, TX to Wiley Benson Wimberly and Laveda Madeline Vice Wimberly. She passed away November 12, 2018 in Carthage. Mrs. Keller was raised in Logansport, Louisiana and graduated from Logansport High School with the class of 1957. She loved to sew, crochet, and do her arts and crafts. Mrs. Keller is preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Rueben Ancill Keller and Leon Dwight Lane; siblings, Carlos, Cecil, and Wayne Wimberly, Inez V. Wilson, and Addie Mae Wimberly Hartley. Mrs. Keller is survived by her sons Patrick Benson Keller of Houston, Michael Ancill Keller of Carthage; step-son Dustin Leon Lane and wife Angela of Birmingham, AL; daughter Kayla Dalene Keller Leach of Carthage; adopted children Don Fletcher of Birmingham, AL, and Gloria Kay Rowe and husband Greg of Joaquin; sisters Bonnie Fae Wimberly Watts and husband Morgan of Lufkin, Virginia Williams of Athens, and Shirley Aline McGuire of Carthage; grandchildren, Michael S. Thorne of Carthage, Amanda Keller of Houston, Bruce Keller and wife Connie of Houston, Amber Hill and husband Jerrett of Carthage, Andrea Leach of Carthage, Angel Wood and husband Jason of Tyler, and 18 great-grandchildren. Serving as pallbearers are Michael Keller, Michael Thorne, Charles Keller, Scotty Hartley, Wayne Stewart, and Jason Wood. Honorary pallbearers are Matthew Thorne, Jayden Hill, Jasper Hill, Jordan Robinson, and Oliver Wood. The family request memorials to Hawthorn Funeral Home for expenses. An online guestbook may be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com.