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167. OPAL V.⁶ LAKE (CHARLES ADOLPHUS⁵, THOMAS NOBLE MARSHALL⁴, HARRISON B.³, WILLIAM LAKE² JR., WILLIAM¹ LAKE) was born August 30, 1913, and died October 29, 1936 in Columbus, Ohio. She married SLIM LYMAN.

Notes for OPAL V. LAKE:
Opal died in Columbus, Ohio of complications during pregnancy and was buried beside her mother and father in the Fraternal Cemetery at Belington, West Virginia.

(1) Barbara Spotloe, Box 43A, Philippi, WV.
(2) Virginia (Mrs. Mike) Till, Scranton, PA. Mike is in the Secret Service.
(3) All above by Aubrey Lake Dooley (1983).

More About OPAL V. LAKE:
Burial: Fraternal Cemetery, Belington, WV

Children of OPAL LAKE and SLIM LYMAN are:

	i.		BARBARA⁷ LYMAN, m. ? SPOTLOE.
	ii.		VIRGINIA LYMAN, m. MIKE TILL.

168. AUBREY GAY⁶ LAKE (CHARLES ADOLPHUS⁵, THOMAS NOBLE MARSHALL⁴, HARRISON B.³, WILLIAM LAKE² JR., WILLIAM¹ LAKE) was born September 22, 1915. She married (1) CHARLES R. CLARK. He was born February 20, 1905. She married (2) JOHN J. DOOLEY. He was born November 05, 1917, and died June 02, 1995.

Notes for AUBREY GAY LAKE:
The following letter was written by Aubrey Lake Dooley to me (the author - Lawrence Rex Lake) in 1983:

"Our home place was located two miles out of Philippi, West Virginia, a 130 acre farm (the house is now gone). During the depression years, we children gathered hickory nuts, chestnuts, walnuts, wild strawberries, sassafras, elderberries for jelly and a little wine for Dad. From garden truck patches, we canned tomatoes, corn, beans, pickles, relish; cabbage and potatoes were buried in the ground to keep for winter. We picked apples and made applebutter. We often roasted chestnuts in the fireplace after the evening meal. The 1918 flu epidemic passed us by and the doctor checked our menu to see if he could discover our secret. He decided it was because of the great quantity of onions we ate every day.

Dad farmed and did odd jobs for our neighbors, never having a regular job. For several years we had a dairy and delivered milk in Philippi. In 1931, Dad owed the Bank of Philippi $1,000 and there was just no way he could raise the money. The bank foreclosed and sold our farm for $1,600 at auction. We moved to a rented house outside Philippi for $50 a year rent. During the summer months, Dad and the children worked in the fields to pay the rent and to raise our winter food. We never were hungry and we never accepted charity. Mom cut hair, sewed and traded our talents for things we needed. She made all our clothes, often buying the material for as little as 29 cents a yard. She often said Sears Roebuck raised us. One pair of their $2.69 shoes took me two miles each morning and evening to and from school. In May 1933, I graduated from Philippi High School in a class of 42. I was fifth from the top and spoke at the commencement exercised on "Leisure Time - A National Problem". Under my robe was a yellow cotton flowered dress with white trim. I heard their comments: "Aubrey doesn't have a fancy dress". I was a Lake and I held my head high. After graduation, I was taken by my brother to Akron, Ohio where I learned to be a comptometer operator. I married and had two little girls (marriage later failed). I later returned to West Virginia and worked for Monongahela Power Company from 1946 to 1952. I remarried and had a son and daughter and inherited a five year old stepson and returned to Ohio. I retired in 1977 and my husband retired in 1981. We have a nice little home and a good retirement plan. There have been heartaches, loneliness, hurt and disappointments along the way, but the Lake training held and pulled me through the rough places.

Today I can boast that there is nothing between me and my Maker. I am glad I was a Lake and had a dad that ruled with an iron hand. We do not like to travel. My husband has a used bicycle shop and I use my sewing and arithmetic talents. We attend the Baptist church. I am known as the lady that can smile. I can, for I was a Lake.

Each child in our family had his chores to do. All helped on the farm. A section of the 130 acre farm was used as a corn field and pasture. It started to grow small trees. Dad used a big mower with horses to mow around and around the field. Opal, Mary, Jessie, Marsh and I were placed in the circle a small distance apart and given a small axe or hatchet and it was our job to cut away any small trees that would interfere with the mower. We didn't get the whole hillside cut. That was in the late 1920's or early 1930's. In the late 1960's I returned to view the old place and saw a sawmill at the base of the hill where we had cut trees and where we missed, there were huge trees. They were being cut down for the sawmill to cut into lumber. I wanted to stop and tell them why the lower half had no big trees, but I just smiled and went on. I knew why! It was then I realized that years and years had slipped quietly by".
The following obituary was published in the Times West Virginian (Fairmont, West Virginia) on December 4, 1999:

Aubrey Clark Dooley, 84, formerly of Fairmont, died Saturday (Nov. 20, 1999) at the Life Care Center of Elyria, Ohio. She was born September 22, 1915 in Philippi, a daughter of the late Charles A. and Bertha Saffel Lake. She was a member of North Eaton Baptist Church in Ohio. She first worked at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Plant in Akron, Ohio and later was in the payroll offices of Westinghouse and Monongahela Power Company in Fairmont. She also taught classes at the West Virginia Business College and was a well known seamstress. She graduated from Philippi High School, second in her class.

She is survived by three daughters, Pattie Clark Delapas of Fairmont, Carol Clark Caldwell of South Carolina and Doneta Roberts of Elyria, Ohio; one son, John Dooley Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Jim and Betty Burnsworth of Fairmont and Jessie Corder of Florida; 11 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Charles R. Clark and her second husband, John R. Dooley, five sisters and two brothers.

Burial was in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens, Avons (Avon?), Ohio. Three grandsons served as pall bearers, John Miles, Shawn and Michael Dooley.

(1) Patricia Delapas, 228 Meadowlane, Fairmont, WV (Nurse at
Fairmont General Hospital.
(2) Carol Caldwell, 1899 Timberlake Drive, Rock Hill, SC
(teacher).
(3) Doneta Miles, 612 Pritchard St., Grayson, KY.
(4) David Dooley - Wisconsin (1993).
(5) All above by Aubrey Lake Dooley.
(6) Death of John Dooley from The Times-West Virginian.
(7) Death of Aubrey Lake Dooley from The Times-West Virginian.

More About AUBREY GAY LAKE:
Graduation: Philippi High School, Philippi, WV
Hobby: Seamstress

Children of AUBREY LAKE and CHARLES CLARK are:

PATRICIA⁷ CLARK, m. ? DELAPAS.

Notes for PATRICIA CLARK:
Patricia Delapas, 228 Meadowlane, Fairmont, WV (Nurse at
Fairmont General Hospital).

More About PATRICIA CLARK:
Occupation: Nurse

ii.

CAROL CLARK, m. ? CALDWELL.

Notes for CAROL CLARK:
Carol Caldwell, 1899 Timberlake Drive, Rock Hill, SC
(teacher).

More About CAROL CLARK:
Occupation: Teacher

Children of AUBREY LAKE and JOHN DOOLEY are:

iii.

DONETA⁷ DOOLEY, m. ? ROBERTS.

Notes for DONETA DOOLEY:
Doneta Miles, 612 Pritchard St., Grayson, KY.

iv.

DAVID DOOLEY.

Notes for DAVID DOOLEY:
David Dooley - Wisconsin (1993).

169. JESSIE M.⁶ LAKE (CHARLES ADOLPHUS⁵, THOMAS NOBLE MARSHALL⁴, HARRISON B.³, WILLIAM LAKE² JR., WILLIAM¹ LAKE) was born February 07, 1917. She married EMIEL CORDER.

Notes for JESSIE M. LAKE:
(1) Donald, Windermere, Florida.
(2) Susan, South Carolina.
(3) Tina, Windermere, Florida.
(4) All above supplied by Aubrey Lake Dooley (1983).

Children of JESSIE LAKE and EMIEL CORDER are:

DONALD⁷ CORDER.

More About DONALD CORDER:
Living At: Windermere, Florida (1983)

ii.

SUSAN CORDER.

More About SUSAN CORDER:
Living At: South Carolina (1983)

iii.

TINA CORDER.

More About TINA CORDER:
Living At: Windermere, Florida (1983)

170. CHARLES MARSHALL⁶ LAKE (CHARLES ADOLPHUS⁵, THOMAS NOBLE MARSHALL⁴, HARRISON B.³, WILLIAM LAKE² JR., WILLIAM¹ LAKE) was born February 03, 1923 in Philippi, WV, and died January 24, 1982 in Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV. He married AUDRA FARANCE.

Notes for CHARLES MARSHALL LAKE:
Charles Marshall died in a Morgantown, West Virginia hospital of cancer. He is buried near Fairmont, West Virginia in Memorial Gardens. The following obituary appeared in the Fairmont Times on January 25, 1982:
Charles Marshall Lake, 59, Route 7, Whitehall, died Monday afternoon in Monongalia General Hospital in Morgantown. He was born in Philippi February 3, 1923, a son of the late Charles and Bertha Saffel Lake. Survivors include his wife, Audra Farance Lake; six sisters: Mabel Ball, Pittsburgh; Ruby Haddix, Philippi; Aubrey Dooley, Grafton, Ohio; Betty Burnworth, Fairmont; Mary Clay, Youngstown, Ohio; Jessie Corder, Winter Garden, Florida. One brother, Fred Lake, two sisters, Beatrice Boyles and Opal Lyman, are deceased. He was a conductor on the Chessie System, and was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in World War II. Friends may call at the Ford Funeral Home, 201 Columbia Street from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. Funeral services will be held in the funeral home at 1 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Gary Nelson officiating. Burial will be in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens.

(1) All above supplied by Aubrey Lake Dooley.

More About CHARLES MARSHALL LAKE:
Burial: Rest Haven Memorial Gardens - Fairmont, West Virginia

Children of CHARLES LAKE and AUDRA FARANCE are:

	i.		AUDIA LEE⁷ LAKE.
	ii.		MARSHA DARLENE LAKE.

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