Verdie Mumford Lake (1965)

LAKE, MUMFORD, POPE, MADDY, COOPER, MARSH, ALEXANDER, HAM, BEADLE, GIFFORD, MEYER, SCHARDER

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 9/1/2006 at 14:55:32

Winterset Madisonian
1965

FORMER RESIDENT DIES AT LAKE CITY

Mrs. Walter S. Lake, former resident of Madison county, died Wednesday, June 2, at a hospital in Lake City, where she had been a surgical patient since May 28. She was 84 years of age.

Mrs. Lake was the former Verdie B. Mumford, daughter of John W. and Eliza Pope Mumford, and was born near Winterset Feb. 27, 1881. She was married at Winterset in 1897 to Walter S. Lake. They moved that year to Kansas, and from there by covered wagon to North Platte, Nebr. in 1908. Four years later they moved to the Nebraska sand hills, near Garfield Table, where they homesteaded 600 acres of land.

Mr. and Mrs. Lake returned to Winterset in 1916, farming here for 20 years, then moving to near Knoke, and in 1943 to Fonda, where they had since made their home.

They observed their sixty-eighth wedding anniversary earlier this year.

Mrs. Lake was a member of the United Brethren church and the Women's Missionary society.

They were parents of 12 children, one son dying at the age of three months.

She is survived by her husband; three sons, Forest Lake of Jolly, Jake Lake of Fonda and Dale Lake of Chandler Heights, Ariz.; eight daughters, Mrs. Jim Maddy and Mrs. Alvin Cooper of Chariton, Mrs. Jessie Marsh and Mrs. Levi Alexander of Waterloo, Mrs. Elwood Ham of Macksburg, Mrs. John Beadle of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Letha Gifford of Girard, O., and Mrs. Nova Meyer of Fonda. She also leaves 33 grandcildren; 81 great grandchildren; 12 great great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Scharder of Winterset; and a brother, Tom Keith of Reseda, Calif.

Funeral services were held Saturday, with burial made in Cedar cemetery at Fonda.