Park Ridge Advocate; Park Ridge IL; 2004-10-7

Edwin  Lake 
Edwin M. Lake of Park Ridge died on Oct. 2 at the  St. Benedict  Home
in Niles.  Growing up on the North Side of Chicago, Mr. Lake graduated
from  DePaul Academy. He attended  Wright Junior  College for two years
before receiving a baseball  scholarship from Illinois Wesleyan. As
part of the Illinois Wesleyan team, he  played in Cooperstown as part
of the centennial  anniversary celebration of baseball in 1939. He
graduated from Illinois Wesleyan  in 1940 and returned to Chicago,
where he played with the Chicago White Sox minor league farm team as a
southpaw  pitcher.  In 1942, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where
he served as a staff sergeant and supply technician for the 1040th Army
Air Force Base Unit in the Western Pacific. He also spent time traveling
with military baseball and volleyball teams as an athletic instructor.
Mr. Lake was president of Irving Federal Savings & Loan for 30 years,  a
business established by his father, Michael J. Lakofka.  Mr. Lake was one
of the key founders of Park Ridge Hockey and was a major contributor to
the State  Champion Maine  South High  School hockey team.  Preceded in
death by his wife of 52 years, Doris,  he is survived by his children,
Marybeth (John) Shepard, Grady and  Diane  Lake; and grandchildren,
Mathew and  Kelley  Lake.  Visitation was in Ryan-Parke Funeral Home, Park
Ridge. Funeral Mass was celebrated on Oct. 6 in the  St. Benedict Nursing
and Rehabilitation Home. Burial was  private in St. Joseph  Cemetery,
River Grove.  Memorials to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation,
500 N. Dearborn St., Suite 305,  Chicago IL  60610, are appreciated.
Published in the Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (Park Ridge,  IL)