Obituary:   Eugene Lake
Published Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Missouri

Eugene E. Lake, 81, of Columbia, formerly of Jefferson City, died Sunday,
Sept. 21, 2003, at South Hampton Nursing Center in Columbia.

Private graveside services will be in Maple Hill Cemetery in Kirksville.
Visitation will be at Freeman Mortuary in Jefferson City from 5 to 7 p.m.
Wednesday.

Dr. Lake was born April 18, 1922, in Jefferson City to Leon and Jessie
Ewing Lake.  He married Virginia "Deanie" Robinson on May 25, 1944,
in Kirksville, and she survives.

Dr. Lake graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1940. He attended
Central Methodist College in Fayette and Kirksville State Teacher's
College. He graduated from the Kirksville College of Osteopathy and
Surgery.

He was a physician in Jefferson City from 1947 until his retirement in
1983. He was a founding physician of Charles E. Still Hospital, where
he worked in the surgery department.

He was a member of the Missouri Osteopathic Association, the American
Osteopathic Association, the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons
and the Osage Valley Osteopathic Association.

He was a member of Jefferson Lodge No. 43, A.F.&A.M., the Capital City
Shrine Club, the B.P.O. of Elks and Iota Tau Sigma fraternity. He was
past-president of the Jefferson City Jaycees.

Survivors also include two daughters, Becky MacLellan of Columbia and
Cindy Taylor of St. Louis; two sons, Eugene Lake Jr. and Gregory Lake,
both of Columbia; 11 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

A brother, Leon B. Lake, preceded him in death.

Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association or the charity
of donor's choice.