The Hutchinson News Online Edition - Thursday, February 1, 2007
Published at Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, USA

Walter L. Lake 
LAVERNE, Okla. - Walter Lee Lake, 85, died Jan. 30, 2007 at Golden Oaks
Nursing Center, Enid, Okla.  He was born Aug. 13, 1921, in Laverne,
Okla., the son of Charles Albert and Effie Iola Duvall Lake. A resident
of Enid, Okla., he worked for Lake Insurance and was a U.S. postal
carrier and a rancher.  He belonged to First Baptist Church, Laverne
Golf and Country Club, was a member of I.O.O.F. Laverne Masonic Lodge,
had been the mayor of Laverne, and was a O.E.D.A. Representative on First
Council of Mayors for the state.  He married Marvene McClellan. On May 6,
1951, he was remarried to Margaret Wells in Laverne, Okla. She survives.
Other survivors include: three daughters, Alinda Gallegos, Alva, Okla.,
Judy O'Neal, Hillsborough, Calif., and Sheila Slinkard, Mesa, Wash.;
two sisters, Marie Armstrong, Oklahoma City, and Wilma Nelson, Woodward,
Okla.; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.  Funeral will be
at 11 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church, Laverne, with the Revs. Michael
Wilcox and Gaylon Cox presiding. Memorial service will be at 10:30
a.m. Saturday at Golden Oaks, Enid, with Pastor Ron Chastin and Chaplain
Shorty Unruh. Visitation is from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. today at Myatt-Seeger
Funeral Home, Laverne.  Burial will be in Laverne Memorial Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to Circle of Love Hospice or Golden Oaks Chapel,
in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 909, Laverne, OK.