published in The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville, TN Sunday, January 23,
2005 Monday, January 24, 2005
 
Erma Lake
Erma Gay Lake, 84, Clarksville, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2005, at Spring
Meadows Health Care Center.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. today at Sykes Funeral Home and Crematory,
with the Rev. Terry Brown officiating. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., at a later date.

She was born Nov. 9, 1920, in Salem, W. Va, daughter of William Howard
Hazelwood and Kizzia Bates Hazelwood. She was the widow of George O. Lake
and was preceded in death by a son, William H. Lake.

Mrs. Lake was a homemaker and a Baptist.

Survivors include a son, George E. Lake, Clarksville; two sisters,
Ida M. Kimball, Daytona Beach, and Judy Bolton, Humboldt; and three
grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Open Door Tabernacle, 271 Patterson
Street, Salem, WV 26426.