Police Athletic League. He remained in charge of the program for 17 years and oversaw its expansion to 16 centers with 20,000 participants. He retired from the post at the end of 1992. Personal life and death Lane was married three times. He married his first wife, Geraldine Dandridge, in April 1951. The couple separated in August 1962 and was divorced in January 1963. In July 1963, Lane married jazz singer Dinah Washington at a ceremony in Las Vegas. It was the sixth marriage for Washington and the second for Lane. On December 14, 1963, Lane discovered Washington dead at their home at 4002 Buena Vista Street in Detroit with a bottle of prescription pills on the night stand beside her. In 1964, Lane married school teacher Mary Cowser, who in 1955 became the first African American woman to appear in Coca-Cola advertisements. They had a son, Richard Ladimir Lane, who was born in 1965. The marriage ended in divorce after ten years. In 1994, Lane moved from Detroit back to his hometown of Austin, Texas. Due to reduced mobility from diabetes and knee injuries, he spent the last two years of his life at the Five Star Assisted Living facility in North Austin. He died there from a heart attack in January 2002 at age 73, after playing dominoes and while listening to jazz in his room. His family believed that he also suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brought on by football-related Injuries. References External links 1928 births 2002 deaths American football cornerbacks Central State Marauders football coaches Chicago Cardinals players Detroit Lions players Los Angeles Rams players Southern Jaguars football coaches Western Nebraska Cougars football players Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Western Conference Pro Bowl players United States Army personnel of the Korean War United States Army soldiers Players of American football from Austin, Texas African-American coaches of American football African-American players of American football 20th-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American people