Mt. Olivet

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To view new photos taken at Christmas, 2000, Click HERE Many thanks to Sharon Ridenour for taking them!

	Mt. Olivet Cemetery, in Hugo, OK. is where the Frost Family chose to have Lane buried, next to his friend Freckles Brown.
The main road of Mount Olivet. Mount Olivet is open dawn to dusk 7 days a week. Directions to Lane's grave site: You will turn into the cemetery, and go under the arch at the gate. Drive down the main road to the first road on your right. (This road will be before you get to the office.) Turn right. After you turn right on the first road, Lane's grave site will be on your left, about 3 or 4 car lengths down the road. In the picture below you can see how Lane's marker, in the shape of his World Champion belt buckle, and his friend Freckles Brown's tall brown marker look from the road. The flag pole is another good mark to look for.


	The back of Lane's marker. See pictures below for more detail.

	First Baptist Church Atoka, Ok.
On August 2, 1989, Lane's funeral service was held at the First Baptist Church in Atoka, Ok. It was thought to be large enough to hold all the people that would come to pay their respects to Lane. However, Oklahoma's paper, "The Oklahoman", estimated that 3500 people attended Lane's funeral. 1200 filled the pews and aisles of the church and its adjacent auditorium, and the rest of the mourners stood outside in the rain, listening to the service over loudspeakers. The former state legislator and rodeo announcer Clem McSpadden, in his eulogy about Lane said, "He had one great quality that separates him from much of this generation today. He knew no greed. To the people he baled hay with in Choctaw County, and the people he worked cattle with, he was just what he was. He had goals that far exceeded a championship buckle, and today he wears the buckle of immortality." The Rev. Willard Moody of Roswell, N.M. said that Lane was one of the many rodeo cowboys that "get to know Jesus" (Lane was a born-again Christian.) He also remarked on the vast age differences of the mourners at the service who were Lane's acquaintances. "Lane knew no age limits or boundaries when it came to making friends." Lane's friends, Tuff Hedeman, Jim Sharp, Cody Lambert, Clint Branger, Wes Ward, and Gus Sartin served as pallbearers. After the service, Lane was taken to Hugo, OK., about 45 miles from Atoka, and laid to rest at Mount Olivet Cemetery, next to his friend and mentor, Freckles Brown.
"When I have to think of Lane there, I like to think of Freckles there with him."


The entrance to Mount Olivet Cemetery Hugo, Ok.

The first burial on Mount Olivet ground was an infant, on Feb. 16, 1907. The first documented burial at Mount Olivet was a year later on March 27, 1908.
	Mount Olivet celebrated its 100 Year Anniversary in 1998.
Mount Olivet is best known for it's "Showman's Rest" area, where many circus performers and employees are laid to rest. Lane Frost, Freckles Brown, and Todd Whatley are all World Champion Bull Riders that are buried at Mount Olivet. .

	This is a picture of Lane's grave site that was taken in May 1999. People that have been able to visit in the past might notice the trees around Lane's grave, and other graves, are being removed. This is to try to stop the vandalism that is happening in Mount Olivet. Even tributes that have been left for Lane by his parents have been stolen from his grave. Whoever took them, I hope you don't call yourself a fan, or a friend! .

Below are "Thumbnail" pictures of Mount Olivet. Click on the picture to get a larger image. Important-Click on your "BACK" button to return to this page after viewing the image.

Early morning at Mount Olivet. Lane and Freckles are buried to the left of the flagpole.	Lane and Freckles' markers. (Front View)


Two back views of Lane and Freckles' markers.

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Lane's Marker. (Front View)


Lane's Marker. (Back View)


The back of Lane's marker. (close-ups) A photo of Lane, "Lane, I Love You and a photo of Kellie" is Lane and Red Rock. engraved in the stone


A friend left this hat for Lane's visitors to sign.	Lane had a brand chosen for his bulls. A backwards "L" against an "F" with a bar underneath.

	Lane might not have been perfect, but the world was a better place when he was in it.


This stone marker is at the foot of Lane's grave.	This stone marker is at the foot of Freckles Brown's grave.


The front and back of Freckles Brown's marker.


The front of Edith Brown's (Freckles' wife), marker.	The back of Edith's marker.

An emblem of Freckles' World Champion Belt Buckle is on the front of his marker.


"I know what happened to Lane. If only someone could tell me why."
Special thanks to my husband Steve for all his work on these photos. .