Lorrie Janette (Fee) Dana was the firstborn child to William and Arlene Fee on February 7, 1960, in Queens, New York. Her sister Cathy and her brother Ken later joined the family.
Music was a big part of Lorrie life as she became a church pianist by the time she was 13, and she eventually became the first clarinet in Pine Bush High School marching band. Lorrie was also highly regarded as an organizer and common-sense thinker as her senior class of 220 students voted her "Most Likely to Succeed."
Lorrie graduated summa com laude from Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York, with a degree in Chemistry and minors in Math and English. She began her career as a chemist in Balchem Company in Slate Hill, New York.
Lorrie married Frederick Dana on June 27, 1982. She gave birth to Jared in 1985, and to Emily in 1987. After being a stay-at-home mom for a few years, she held various part time jobs such as teaching high school Algebra, all levels of advanced Math, copy editing for a magazine and a publishing business.
When her husband Fred became a pastor in Iowa in 1997, Lorrie enjoyed planning church social activities, telling heartwarming children's stories, and playing the piano. In 2001 she became an office secretary for the Iowa Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventist.
When her husband's pastoral career brought them back to New York, Lorrie became the administrative assistant for the Office of Business Assistance for the Orange County Government in Goshen, New York in 2006.
Lorrie's pride and joy was being grandma to John and Harlie, Jared and his wife, Angie's two children; and grandma to Hannah and Michael, Emily, and her husband, Zahger's two children.
In 2015 Lorrie and Fred made a big move to Sacramento, California where Fred served as a pastor for the Sacramento Central for nearly nine years. More recently, they transferred to the Mentone, California Seventh-day
Adventist Church.
After a long struggle with Alzheimer's, Lorrie passed away on June 15, 2026.
Lorrie Janette Dana leaves behind her husband of nearly 44 years, Frederick Dana; her son, Jared and daughter, Emily; her grandchildren, John, Harlie, Hannah and Michael; her mother, Arlene Fee; her sister, Cathy Dudley; brother Kenneth Fee; her daughter-in-law Angie, her son-in-law Zahger, two bonus grandsons.