Relatives and friends gathered for a visitation on Tuesday, October 16, 2018. The Begnauds held a private, family-only funeral the next day.
In Sabal Palms and the neighborhoods beyond it, the lights had gone up nearly three months early, on the strength of one Facebook post and one family's tradition. The neighbors could not change Lane's diagnosis. What they could change was the date, and they changed it before the time ran out.
