Lane Sealy
Personal
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 16, 1929
Date of Death: October 9, 2012
Birth Place: Galveston, TX
Death Place: San Antonio, TX
Lane Sealy
Lane Taylor Sealy 83 of San Antonio passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, October 9, 2012 due to complications associated with his COPD and congestive heart failure. Born July 16, 1929 in Galveston, TX to Eugenia Taylor of San Antonio and George Sealy II, prominent Galveston banker and businessman.
Lane’s energetic penchant for the spice of life invariably led him to take the unexpected forks in the road of life and often not the path others sought to choose for him. Not one to be left behind he demanded to be allowed to follow his older brother George to San Antonio where they attended the San Antonio Academy while living with his maternal grandparents Lane and Amanda Cartwright Taylor on Magnolia St. He subsequently distinguished himself at Texas Military Institute by rising to the highest rank possible for a cadet and for winning many honors with his sharpshooting skills on the riflery team graduating in 1948. He later graduated from UT Austin with his BBA and married the love of his life, coed Tri-Delta, Martha Ann Coyle of San Antonio before entering active duty military service as a 1st Lt in the Air Force during the Korean War in the spring of his senior year. Joining the OSI he was commended for his work in counter intelligence and security in the US and overseas in Korea.
Rather than returning to Galveston to assume an assured position in the family banking concern at Hutchings-Sealy National Bank or at their Galveston Corporation, a cotton financing and facilitating business, he took an offer to enter in banking with the National Bank of Commerce in San Antonio where he stayed for 30 years rising to Senior Vice President of the Trust Department. Early in his career he earned a Masters Degree in banking from the Southwestern School of Banking at SMU and was instrumental in helping the bank computerize its operations.
Being born and raised on an island and a great shipping port, Lane was infected with a life long love of the water and boats and everything nautical. Earliest memories were of Sunday afternoon drives with his father along the bustling Galveston wharves where ships were coming and going carrying goods to and from ports around the world. Throughout his life he always owned boats of all makes and sizes, sail and power and surrounded himself with all manner of nautical things. He was an outgoing and enthusiastic man who was generous to a fault and an unwavering advocate to his friends and clients. Possessed with natural leadership abilities and unquestioned integrity and he often became the leader of the organizations he chose to associate with including President of the Alamo Kiwanis Club, Commander of the San Antonio Power Squadron and Alderman for the City of Alamo Heights. He was a member of the San Antonio Country Club and the San Antonio German Club.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his youngest son, John William Sealy. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Marty, his brother George Sealy of Houston and his sister Eugenia Cross of Asheville, NC, his sons Lane Taylor Sealy, Jr, of Houston, Edward and Ellen Sealy, and their children Josh and Martita Sealy Hunt of El Paso, Matthew Sealy, Johnny and Mallory Sealy Moorman, E. Hutchings Sealy, his daughter-in-law Tammy Sealy Walden and her children Lane McCall Sealy, John William Sealy, Jr, and Blake Sealy, and his great grand children Catesby and Tolliver Hunt.
Memorials can be made to the Galveston Historical Foundation for the benefit of the sailing ship Elissa, 502 20th Street, Galveston, Texas 77550, or a charity of your choice.
Published in Express-News from October 10 to October 11, 2012
