California Democrat
California, Missouri
October 2, 2002

LAKE
    Dorothy Lake, 85, Versailles, died Friday, Sept. 25, 2002, at Capital
Region Medical Center, Jefferson City.
    She was born Oct. 21, 1916, in Moniteau County, daughter of Raymond
and Eulah Campbell Worthley. She was married Jan. 20, 1940, in Eldon,
to Wilmer Lake, who survives of the home.
    She worked as a cook at High Point School for five years. She was a
member of the Friendship Quilting Club, High Point, and charter member
of the Ninth Street Christian Church, Eldon.
    Other survivors include: two sons, Donald Lake, Columbia, and Harold
Lake, Mountain Grove; two daughters, Juanita Branstetter, Belton, and
Anita Cox, Harrisburg; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
    Services were held Friday at Ninth Street Christian Church with
Minister Don Renken and Minister Tom Farrington officiating. Burial was
in Greenmore Memorial Gardens, Barnett.
    Arrangements were under the direction of Phillips Funeral Home, Eldon.
    Memorials may be made to Ninth Street Christian Church, Eldon.



Obituary: Dorothy Lake
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Missouri
Published Friday, September 27, 2002

Dorothy Lake, 85, of Versailles died Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002, in
Jefferson City.

Services were at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at Ninth Street Christian
Church in Eldon, with Don Renken and Tom Farrington officiating. Burial
was in Greenmore Memorial Gardens of Barnett.

Mrs. Lake was born Oct. 21, 1916, in Moniteau County to Raymond and
Eulah Campbell Worthley.

She married Wilmer Lake on Jan. 20, 1940, in Eldon, and he survives.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of the Friendship Quilting Club
in High Point. She was a school cook at the High Point School for five
years and a charter member of the Ninth Street Christian Church in Eldon.

Survivors also include two sons, Donald Lake of Columbia and Harold
Lake of Mountain Grove; two daughters, Juanita Branstetter of Belton and
Anita Cox of Harrisburg; seven grandchildren; and two great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and two brothers, Gene Worthley
and Albert lee Worthley.

Memorials are suggested to Ninth Street Christian Church in Eldon.