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Descendants of William Lake


257. NANCY LEE8 LAKE (KENNETH LEO7, EMMET RUSSELL6, ILA HENDERSON5, JOHN AARON4, ILA3, GEORGE B.2, WILLIAM1) was born July 30, 1944 in Marion County, Fairmont, WV. She married LARRY SASAMON.

Notes for NANCY LEE LAKE:
(1) Family records of Emmet Lake.
(2) Marion County (WV) Birth Book 9 - Page 134 (Nancy).


     
Child of NANCY LAKE and LARRY SASAMON is:
  i.   LARRY TIMOTHY9 SASAMON.


258. LORA JUNE8 LAKE (CARL LEONARD7, EMMET RUSSELL6, ILA HENDERSON5, JOHN AARON4, ILA3, GEORGE B.2, WILLIAM1) was born July 27, 1949. She married WILLIAM LITOS August 13, 1993. He was born February 26, 1937.

Notes for LORA JUNE LAKE:
They were married August 15, 1993. William was formerly from Ameagle, West Virginia and is retired from the Ford Motor Company. Lora had three children prior to her marriage to William.

Family records of Carl Lake Jr. (1997)

More About WILLIAM LITOS and LORA LAKE:
Marriage: August 13, 1993
     
Children of LORA LAKE and WILLIAM LITOS are:
284. i.   PEDRO REGALADO9 LAKE, b. September 06, 1970.
285. ii.   RICHARD JOSEPH LAKE, b. July 27, 1973.
286. iii.   ANTHONY THOMAS LAKE, b. February 25, 1975.


259. MICHAEL RUSSELL8 LAKE (CARL LEONARD7, EMMET RUSSELL6, ILA HENDERSON5, JOHN AARON4, ILA3, GEORGE B.2, WILLIAM1) was born June 17, 1951. He married (1) KATHY BRADY. He married (2) MARY LOUISE FLEMING 1971.

Notes for MICHAEL RUSSELL LAKE:
Michael and Mary Louise were married in 1971. They had two children prior to divorcing in 1976:

The whereabouts of Mary, Kevin and Keith are unknown. They were last known to be in New London, Ohio. Michael and Kathy live in Lorain, Ohio (1996).


(1) Family records of Carl Lake Jr. (1996).
(2) Carl Lake Jr. is attempting contact with Michael R. Lake to update this part of our family.



More About MICHAEL RUSSELL LAKE:
Living At: Lorain, Ohio

More About MICHAEL LAKE and MARY FLEMING:
Marriage: 1971
     
Children of MICHAEL LAKE and KATHY BRADY are:
  i.   JESSICA9 LAKE, b. April 20, 1982.
  ii.   JENNIFER LORA LAKE, b. March 15, 1986.
  iii.   MICHAEL RUSSEL LAKE, b. 1988.
     
Children of MICHAEL LAKE and MARY FLEMING are:
  iv.   KEVIN MICHAEL9 LAKE.
  v.   KEITH RUSSELL LAKE.


260. RICHARD ALLEN8 LAKE (CARL LEONARD7, EMMET RUSSELL6, ILA HENDERSON5, JOHN AARON4, ILA3, GEORGE B.2, WILLIAM1) was born November 14, 1953. He married (1) EDNA LOUISE MASON. He married (2) RAMONA SUE DUTY. She was born December 04, 1955.

Notes for RICHARD ALLEN LAKE:
Richard is a foreman with Arrow Aluminum in Avon Lake, Ohio.

(1) Family records of Carl Lake Jr. (1996).
(2) Richard Allen Lake (1996), 1940 West 47th Street, Cleveland, OH 44102

     
Children of RICHARD LAKE and EDNA MASON are:
287. i.   CRYSTAL LYNN9 LAKE, b. January 04, 1973.
  ii.   RICHARD ALLEN (JR.) LAKE, b. December 08, 1974; m. JENNIFER ?.
  Notes for RICHARD ALLEN (JR.) LAKE:
Family records of Carl Lake Jr. (1997).





261. JR. CARL LEONARD (JR.)8 LAKE (CARL LEONARD7, EMMET RUSSELL6, ILA HENDERSON5, JOHN AARON4, ILA3, GEORGE B.2, WILLIAM1) was born June 30, 1958. He married LA DAWN PATRICIA NORMAN October 28, 1982. She was born December 02, 1961.

Notes for JR. CARL LEONARD (JR.) LAKE:
La Dawn is from Fremont, Ohio. Carl is a high school graduate and served with the United States Army, 1975-1976. He served with the United States Navy from 1977 through 1989. He is a nursing assistant and medical assistant who works with terminally ill cancer patients.

The many pages added to this book on the family of Carl L. Lake Sr. were all supplied by Carl Jr., without whom many missing names and families might never have been discovered. This author owes him a special note of gratitude for the many hours of help in putting this part of the family together again, not only on paper but more importantly, in our hearts as well.

At my request, Carl Lake Jr. supplied the following details of his life which he referred to as:

Reader's Digest Version of the Life and Times of
Carl L. Lake Jr.

"I must thank my father for having severe ulcer problems. On May 24, 1957 my father was in Crile Veterans Administration Hospital in Parma, Ohio for treatment of ulcers when he suffered his first heart attack. Had it not occurred in the hospital, it would have been fatal and I would never have been born the next year.

On June 30, 1958 I was born, the last of six children born to Carl and Elizabeth Lake. My family was living in the projects (public housing) where they had lived since 1950, three years after they married. I was born with stomach ulcers, an inheritance from both Mom and Dad. From what I've been told, it took almost all of my first year to beat the ulcers. From all accounts, not much occurred that first year.

On the afternoon of June 1, 1959 my father came home from work at 3:30 p.m. He poured himself a cup of coffee, sat down at the kitchen table, picked me up from where I was playing on the kitchen floor and lit a cigarette. At 3:40 p.m., he dropped the cigarette on the table, dropped me on the floor, collapsed and died instantly of a massive heart attack. He was 37 years old. My mother, at 33 years old, was widowed for the second time and left with raising six children. This marked the beginning of a lifetime of poverty for us. The only good that came of this, and I would not realize this for 30 years, was that I had an almost morbid curiosity about this day and about heart attacks. Over the next ten years, I would become quite knowledgeable in the body and heart disease, which eventually led me to the medical field as an occupation.

In 1963, after my mother had surgery on her legs, we left public housing. We moved from house to house, amassing 18 addresses and nine schools in 18 years. Every time the rent went up, we would pack up. All in all, my childhood was a good one. We did normal kid things, but every time a father-son event would happen, and every June 1st, I would be reminded of the fact that my father was not around.

I must admit that I always had an abnormal fear, based on nothing, that because my name was Carl Lake, I was doomed to be like my father and that I too would not live to see the age of 37.

In 1969, my mother was admitted to the hospital for a blood clot in the left arm. Over the next month, they would amputate her hand, then her forearm and then within inches of the shoulder. They could not keep the clots thinned. She nearly died three times in that period. When she finally came home, I had to learn to cook, clean house and do the laundry, which I did daily for the next six years. I landed my first job in 1971, at the age of 13. I would go to school from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., go to the restaurant where I worked and wash dishes until midnight. By the time I entered the U.S. Army at the age of 17, I had cooked, served, bussed tables and washed dishes at that restaurant.

In 1975 in my senior year in high school, Social Security, which was our only support from the time of Dad's death, had been cut to the bone. There was no way I was going to put up with the poverty anymore. I went to the recruiting station and signed up for the army. I left for Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri in December 1975.

In February 1976, while playing football on the lawn outside the barracks, I injured my back. I was medically discharged on February 13, 1976 and went back to Cleveland just as poor as I had left just two months before. I was told to reapply in 18 months for consideration for reenlistment. By the time my waiting period was up, I would have worked a wide variety of jobs: punch press operator, foundry worker, gas pumper, security guard, dishwasher, delivery man, etc. The day the waiting period ended, I was driving to the recruiting office fondly remembering the cold meals on tin plates, the countless nights on bivouac in tents in three feet of snow in below zero weather, guard detail at midnight, marching in slush to my knees. So when I got there, I did what any normal well adjusted young man would do...I ENLISTED IN THE NAVY!!!!

My first enlistment took me from Boot Camp in Great Lakes, Illinois to administrative school at Naval Air Station, Meridian, Mississippi, to VT-25 training squadron at Naval Air Station, Beeville, Texas, to the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy (CV-67). On board the Kennedy, I would see duty in Norway, Scotland, France, Italy, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Libya and Lebanon.

I also met my wife, La Dawn. We were married October 25, 1982 in Cleveland...three days before she left for active duty with the army. She went to Ft. Dix, New Jersey and then on to Ft. Sam Houston, Texas and duty as a Physician's Assistant at Brooke Army Medical Center. I went to duty on the U.S.S. America (CV-66). Some honeymoon. Some marriage.

In October 1983, I was to transfer from sea duty to a shore facility. I was ready to choose Beeville, Texas again to be with my wife when something inside me told me to go to Cleveland. I arrived for duty at Navy Recruiting District, Cleveland, Ohio in November 1983. It was then that I learned that my mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer. I cared for her in my home from December 1983 until January 19, 1984. At 8:25 p.m. on January 20, 1984, she passed away. This would be the second time I would have the uncontrollable urge to enter the medical field. But I didn't.

In October 1984, I managed to get orders to San Antonio, Texas and joined my wife. On November 2, 1985, our daughter Kristel was born at Brooke Army Medical Center. In October 1986, I had to change jobs. I just couldn't take the paperwork and telephones anymore. I had my third urge to enter the medical field, but on the advice of friends in the medical field at Brooke, I declined, thinking I was not the type to be able to handle it. I would regret this decision many times over the next ten years.

I transferred to sea duty on board the U.S.S. McCloy (FF-1083), a drug interceptor ship in Norfolk, Virginia in 1987. My son Carl III was born this same year on September 16 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In September 1988, while chasing drug runners off the coast of Puerto Rico, I injured my back. On January 6, 1989, I was medically discharged from the Navy without retirement. The injury and lack of formal education placed my family and me in the same boat I worked so hard to get out of...living in poverty on the West Side of Cleveland. We were on welfare when Eric was born on April 30, 1990.

In June 1991, I accepted a job as housekeeper for Parma Community General Hospital, cleaning nursing floors and operating rooms. It was this that finally compelled me to enter the medical field. My neighbor at that time was an LPN for Manor Care Nursing Center. She told me that Manor Care would teach me nursing assisting for free. I applied and received my license on October 30, 1991. That night I was informed that my brother Terry had been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer.

I accepted a position at Holy Family Cancer Hospital for terminally ill cancer patients on March 27, 1992. On April 20, after I got home from the hospital, I was informed by my brother Michael that Terry had passed away at home.

My wife went to college for computers in September 1995 and graduated in April 1996. She is currently (1997) employed at Lakewood Hospital, Lakewood, Ohio. I went to school for Medical Assisting and graduated in June 1996. I still practice Nursing Assisting instead.

We finally crawled out of six years of poverty last year. We now live in a beautiful apartment complex in Parma, Ohio. Today, I took the entrance exam for Parma School of Practical Nursing...I think I did well...wish me luck!!!"

P.S. He passed!

(1) Family records of Carl Lake Jr. (1996).
(2) Carl Leonard Lake Jr., 9727 Pleasant Lake Blvd., Apartment S-28, Cleveland, OH 44130




More About JR. CARL LEONARD (JR.) LAKE:
Living At: Fairmont, Marion County, WV (2001)
Military service: U. S. Army/ U. S. Navy
Occupation: Medical Assistant

More About CARL LAKE and LA NORMAN:
Marriage: October 28, 1982
     
Children of CARL LAKE and LA NORMAN are:
  i.   KRISTEL DAWN9 LAKE, b. November 02, 1985.
  ii.   CARL LEONARD (III) LAKE, b. September 16, 1987.
  iii.   ERIC NELSON LAKE, b. April 30, 1990.


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