SERVICE: 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 27, 2019, at Laurel Land Funeral Home in Fort Worth
BURIAL: DFW National Cemetery
Jack was born in Lissie, Texas on July 30, 1921. He was the second of seven children born to David Leslie and Ola Bell Smith Lanier. Jack was a graduate of Garwood High School in Garwood, Texas and the University of Texas at Austin. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Jack met his beloved wife, Virginia Hancock Lanier, while he was stationed at the Army air base in Ardmore, Oklahoma. They were married in Ardmore in 1946 and moved to Austin, Texas, where Jack was a student at the University of Texas. Their three children were born in Austin. The family moved to Fort Worth in 1956 when Jack began his career as an electrical engineer at what is now Lockheed-Martin. He retired in 1986. Jack was a member of Edge Park United Methodist Church.
SURVIVORS: Sisters, Hazel Page and Berta Rea Broach; daughter, Jean Anne Lanier; son, Charles Lanier and wife, Beth; son, David Mark Lanier and wife Teenie; grandchildren David Lanier, James Lanier, Angela Lanier Taylor, and John Mark Lanier; and great-grandchildren Bailey Taylor and Gavin Taylor.
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