Hastings Tribune
Hastings, NE
Sep 27, 2005

                                      Grace Lake
    Former Nelson resident Grace (Hackett) Lake, 92, of Kent, Wash.,
died Thursday, Dec 9, 2004.
    Graveside services are 1 pm Sunday at Nelson Cemetery in Nelson.
Klawitter-Price Funeral Home in Nelson is in charge of arrangements.
Condolences may be sent at www.pricefuneralhomes.com.
    Mrs Lake was born April 8, 1912, to William and Anna (Rhan) Hackett
in the Sandhills.  Her family moved to Colorado.  She started her career
as a teacher in a one-room school on the Colorado plains. On Aug 2,
1940, she married Mirza J Lake and they moved back to the Sandhills.
They later moved to Shreveport, La., and then to Little Rock, Ark.,
where she taught school.  She continued teaching in Nebraska and was
a published author.  In 1978, she and her husband retired to Kent.
Her husband died Oct 14, 1997.
    Survivors are three sons, Melvin of Kent, Gerald of Las Vegas and
Joseph of Gold Bar, Wash., two daughters, Madelyn Decker of California
and Jerilyn Lake of St Louis, Mo.; four grandchildren; and seven
great-grandchildren.