From a Montrose, Pennsylvania area newspaper dated December 14, 1911:

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Springville

The market owned and conducted by Bruce Lake has changed owners,
Mr. Greatsinger taking possession on Monday.  Bruce started for California
on Saturday last.

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From ancestry.com:

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U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Record
about Kenneth E Lake

Name:                       Kenneth E Lake
Birth Year:                 1923
Race:                       White, citizen
Nativity State or Country:  Pennsylvania
State:                      New York
County or City:             Niagara
Enlistment Date:            26 Feb 1943
Enlistment State:           Pennsylvania
Enlistment City:            Wilkes Barre
Branch:                     Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code:                Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade:                      Private
Grade Code:                 Private
Term of Enlistment:         Enlistment for the duration of the War or
                            other emergency, plus six months, subject to
                            the discretion of the President or otherwise
                            according to law
Component:                  Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source:                     Civil Life
Education:                  1 year of high school
Marital Status:             Single, without dependents
Height:                     71
Weight:                     142

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From the Montrose Independent, Montrose, Pennsylvania dated September
26, 1946:

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Bruce O. Lake

  Bruce O. Lake, aged 59 years, of 54 High street, Montrose, died on
Thursday morning, Sept. 19th, 1946, in the Hahnemann Hospital, Scranton,
where he was admitted the preceding day.  Mr. Lake had been in failing
health for the past nineteen months.
  He was a son of Erastus R. and Etta Chase Lake, and was born in Bridgewater
township October 8, 1886.  He lived in Springville many years, where he
conducted a barber shop.  A man of pleasing personality and widely known
in this section, his unexpected death was received with sorrow by his friends.
  He is survived by his wife, Mabel; a son Kenneth at home, and a sister,
Mrs. Florence MacMicken, of Los Angeles, Calif.
  The funeral was conducted in the Bush Funeral Home, South Montrose,
Saturday afternoon at 2:30, the Rev. Philip N. Pitcher, pastor of Springville
Methodist church, officiating.  Interment was in So. Montrose cemetery.
The pallbearers were cousins of the deceased; Ralph and Mark Lake, Glenn
L. Voss, Guy Allen, Guy B. Robinson and Clayton Garey.

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From the Montrose Independent, Montrose, Pennsylvania dated September
26, 1946:

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Expression of Appreciation

  We sincerely thank the friends who rendered sympathy during our recent
bereavement.  Their kindness is deeply appreciated and has done much to
lessen our sorrow.

Mrs. Bruce Lake
Kenneth Lake
Florence MacMicken

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From the Montrose Independent, Montrose, Pennsylvania dated November 26, 1986:

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Kenneth E. Lake

  Kenneth E. Lake, 62, Castaic, California, died Tuesday, November 4, 1986,
in Granada Hills, California.  His wife is Lois Lake.
  Born in Springville, he was the son of Mable Lake, Montrose Square,
and the late Bruce Lake, a Springville barber, who died in 1949.  He was
a veteran of World War II and a member of the First Baptist Church of Castaic.
  Also surviving is a stepson, Walter Fratus, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
  Memorial services were held Sunday, November 9, at 2 p.m. at the First
Baptist Church in Castaic, with the Rev. Charles Edward and the Rev. Thomas
Price officiating.
  Interment, Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California.
  Arrangements were by Hilburn's Funeral Chapel, Newhall, CA.

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From a Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania newspaper in Sep 1987:

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  Mable L. Lake, 82, of 15 Church St., Montrose, died Saturday, September 12,
1987, at Tyler Memorial Hospital, Tunkhannock.  Her husband, Bruce O. Lake
predeceased her in 1946.
  Mrs. Lake was born in Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, daughter of
the late Merrit and Ida (McLaud) Comstock.  She was a telephone operator,
using a switchboard in her home in Springville for many years.  She was
a post master in Springville also.  Before retirement she worked at the
Commonwealth Telephone office in Montrose.  In 1951 Mrs. Lake moved to
California, returning to this area in 1969.
  Besides her husband, she was predeceased by her son, Kenneth Ernest Lake
in 1987.  She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Mildred Beeman, R. D. 1,
Hop Bottom; one niece, three nephews; several great-nieces and nephews.
  Funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family.
  Arrangements are being made by the Bartron Funeral Home, Inc., 74 Church
Street, Montrose.

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From "Springville Township 1800 - 2000, Book 2" by Susan Bennett-Dyson
in 2010:

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Springville in the Early 1900's
Thanks to Ester Leslie and Dorothy Conrad

Dorothy Conrad, was born in Sanky, (by the Auburn Township line near Lynn)
Susquehanna County in 1896.  Dorothy and her mother moved to Springville
to live in the early 1900's.  In the early 1990's Esther Leslie asked her
who lived where in Springville when she was young.  Following are the notes
from that interview.

Marcy Road and Strickland Hill left side of the road

[third house]

Bruce Lake House - 2nd Telephone Exchange.  Father had a hotel in Dimock.
He took his son up there to drain the whiskey bottles, the men laughing -
the son became a drunkard - now Mary Travis.

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