- Date Of Death: February 3, 2016
- State: Idaho
Rae Crane passed away February 3, 2016 at the Beehive Assisted Living Home of Park City. She was born July 8, 1918 to Edna and Ellis Straw in Montpelier, Idaho and lived there for 95 of her 97 years. She married J. Reed Crane on July 21, 1941. After his death in 1987, she married Ferris Nate in February of 1989 and they were together until his death in 2000.
She graduated from Montpelier High School, studied journalism at BYU for a year, and briefly attended LDS Business College in Salt Lake City. Her real passion was dance and she received training at the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Artists in Los Angeles and went on to teach dance in Montpelier and surrounding communities for more than 20 years. After she hung up her tap shoes, she purchased the Sally Shop on Washington Street, and eventually moved across the street and established Rae’s Elita Shop where she sold women’s wear for 20 years.
Rae always loved Montpelier and the Bear Lake valley and the people who lived there. She wanted to give of herself and make the valley a better place to live. In 1999 she was able to have the “Rae and Reed Crane Multi-Plex” building constructed at the fairgrounds.
