Dale N. Lanway

Dale N. Lanway of Bay City, Michigan, died on September 17, 2026. His death was announced through an obituary published with Trahan Funeral Chapel and Prearrangement Center of Bay City and indexed on Legacy. As of this writing the full funeral-home narrative has not been independently retrieved in full text through available research tools, so this page states only what can be verified from overlapping public sources and does not invent missing dates or details.

Public records and earlier family obituaries place Dale Lanway in Bay City for many years. His mother, Virginia Mae Lanway (Newton) of Caro, died on October 20, 2017; her Ransford Funeral Home obituary listed among her surviving sons "Dale Lanway (Karen Deamud) of Bay City," along with brothers Thomas and Joyce Lanway of Alpena and Erin Lanway of Grove, Oklahoma. Virginia and Dale's father, Donald Thomas Lanway, had married in Clifford in 1940 and raised the family for years in Kingston before later years in the Caro area. Those family lines, not a celebrity biography, are the clearest published map of who Dale was.

In Bay City he was associated with Lanway Rental, a small rental agency listed at 5629 Cortland Circle, with Dale Lanway named as owner in business directories. That listing fits a private working life rooted in the same Midland County and Bay County communities where the Lanway name appears across local obituaries and resident records. Exact birth date, age at death, and cause of death have not been confirmed in a source this page can quote in full, and they are therefore omitted rather than guessed.

Readers arriving from the Trahan or Legacy notice will find here a careful, limited memorial: a Bay City man from a Kingston-Caro family line, linked in life to Karen Deamud, connected to brothers across Michigan and Oklahoma, and remembered through the funeral home that served his community. This page will be expanded if the complete Trahan obituary text or additional verified family statements become available.

Funeral notices in mid-Michigan often appear first on a chapel website and then on Legacy, which is how Dale N. Lanway's name entered the public record on and after September 17, 2026. That pattern is common for private citizens whose lives were known mainly to family, customers and neighbors rather than to national media. People Forever records those deaths when a verifiable notice exists, while refusing to invent a birth date, a cause of death, or a polished career narrative that the sources do not support.

Anyone with additional primary material - a fuller Trahan obituary text, a service program, or a family-authorized photograph - can help this page grow beyond the careful outline given here. Until then, the honest memorial is the one that stays within what can be checked: Bay City, September 17, 2026, Trahan Funeral Chapel, and a Lanway family line already documented in earlier local obituaries.