Sioux City Journal; Sioux City IA; 2001-4-28

Joyce Lake

LE MARS, Iowa - Joyce Lake, 69, of Le Mars died Friday, April 27, 2001, at
her residence as a result of pancreatic cancer.

Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at St. John's Lutheran Church with the Revs.
Jean Morse and Gary Landsness officiating. Bu-rial will be in Hillside
Cemetery in Merrill, Iowa. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with a
prayer service at 7 p.m., at Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars.

Mrs. Lake was born Nov. 2, 1931, in Le Mars, the daughter of Oscar and
Margaret (Borchers) Peters. She was baptized in St. John's Lutheran Church
in Le Mars and confirmed in St. Paul Lutheran Church in rural Merrill. She
attended Johnson Township #5 school and graduated from Le Mars High School.
After attending Wayne State Teachers College in Wayne, Neb., she taught
first grade in Merrill for one year.

She married Donald J. Lake on Aug. 10, 1952, in St. Paul's Lutheran Church.
They farmed north of Merrill for 31 years until their retirement in 1983,
when they moved to Le Mars. She was a homemaker, 4-H leader and Sunday
school teacher in her early adult years. Later she volunteered at Wells
Visitor Center, Floyd Valley Hospital Gift Shop and Brentwood Good Samaritan
Center Auxiliary.

She was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church. She enjoyed playing
cards, baking, traveling and attending Elderhostels.

Survivors include her husband; four daughters and their husbands, Barbara
and Kenneth Becicka of Alvin, Ill., Carol and Mick Snell of Hampton, Iowa,
Dianne and Joseph Rotta of Merrill, and Nancy and Brian Balm of Colorado
Springs, Colo.; 10 grandchildren, Troy and Todd Becicka, Ryan and Jared
Snell, Andrew, Lynnae and Melissa Rotta, Kelli, Alexander and Taylor Balm;
and a sister and her husband, Lois and Robert Lancaster of Le Mars.

She was preceded in death by her parents.