Lane Begnaud died on Thursday, October 11, 2018. He was 13, and he had been fighting bone cancer for about 18 months.
It was one week after the first report about the October lights, and 75 days before Christmas.
Local coverage of his death noted that in the weeks before he died, the community had come together to decorate its neighborhoods for him. The published reports do not say whether the family made their trip to see the lights.
