From the Osawatomie Graphic website of 4 July 2012.
Osawatomie KS


Henry Franklin Lake
1930-2012

Henry Franklin Lake, 82, Osawatomie, formerly of Blue Mound, died June
26, 2012, at Life Care Center of Osawatomie.

Henry was born March 6, 1930, in Blue Mound. He was the fourth of six
children born to Oliver Winsett Lake and Eva Josephine Provest Lake.

He attended Blue Mound schools and worked for the Blue Mound Street
Department.

He was married to Martha Ellen Wright. They made their home in Blue
Mound and became the parents of three children.

The couple moved to Osawatomie in early 2007.

He taught his daughter Mary how to drive, and the family liked fishing
together. He was a carpenter and liked going to auctions, garage sales
and flea markets; he loved collecting things. He loved animals. He kept
dogs and loved feeding squirrels, birds and cats, even an iguana.

He attended the Xenia, Kan., Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by one infant son, David Lee Lake; one brother,
Oliver Winsett Lake Jr.; and two sisters, Elva Knight and Helen Rudisill.

He is survived by his wife of the home; one son, Roy Franklin Lake of
Ottawa; one daughter, Mary Delores Lake of Osawatomie; two sisters,
Mary Yoakum of Blue Mound and Thelma Mata of Kansas City, Kan.

Services were Friday at the Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home, 203 Main St.,
Osawatomie, KS 66064, (913)) 755-2114, followed by a committal service
in the Sunny Slope Cemetery in Blue Mound.

Memorials are to the Henry Lake Memorial Fund.