Wilmer Lake
Published Thursday, December 2, 2004
Columbia Daily Tribune
Columbia Missouri

Wilmer Lake, 92, of Columbia died Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004, in Columbia.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at Phillips Funeral Home in
Eldon, with minister Tom Farrington officiating. Visitation will be one
hour before services at the funeral home. Burial will be at Greenmore
Memorial Gardens in Barnett.

Mr. Lake was born Sept. 29, 1912, in Eldon to Elmer and Anna Wells
Lake. On Jan. 20, 1940, he married Dorothy Worthley in Eldon, and she
preceded him in death on Sept. 25, 2002.

He was a charter member of Ninth Street Christian Church. He was a
lifetime farmer, and in his later years he worked odd jobs.

Survivors include two sons, Donald Lake of Columbia and Harold Lake of
Mountain Grove; two daughters, Juanita Branstetter of Belton and Anita Cox
of Harrisburg; a sister, Mildred Queen of Seattle; seven grandchildren;
four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by one brother, Ross Lake, and two sisters,
Hazel Lake and Mae Shipley.

Memorials are suggested to The Bluffs nursing home.