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Leon Walter Lake

Male 1947 - 1999  (51 years)


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  • Name Leon Walter Lake 
    Born 29 Jul 1947  Melvern, Osage County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 27 Jun 1999  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4939  Rossville
    Last Modified 15 Dec 2019 

    Father Myron Vincent Lake 
    Mother Velma Marie Coble Lake 
    Family ID F5234  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Patricia Ann Olinghouse Lake 
    Married 21 Dec 1968  Shipshewanda, LaGrange County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Leon Lake, Jr.
     2. Eric Vincent Lake
    Last Modified 26 Dec 2019 20:38:59 
    Family ID F5235  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Obituary- Lake, Leon
    Obituary- Lake, Leon
    Leon Walter Lake
    Leon Walter Lake, 51, Topeka, died Sunday, June 27, 1999 at Stormont Vail Regional Health Center of complications due to a brain aneurysm.

    He was born July 29, 1947, on the family farm near Melvern, the son of Myron Vincent and Velma Marie Coble Lake.

    He moved to Topeka in 1969.

    Mr. Lake was reared on the family farm near Melvern and was graduated from Melvern High School in 1965. He was a member of the Army National Guard and served one year in Vietnam with the 69th Infantry.

    Mr. Lake and his two sons owned and operated Leon Lake Construction, the business which he founded in 1973.

    He married Patricia Ann Olinghouse December 21, 1968, at Shore Mennonite Church near Shipshewanda, IN. She survives.

    Other survivors include two sons, Leon “Wayne” Lake, Topeka, Eric Vincent Lake, Lenexa; his father, Myron Vincent Lake, Melvern; three brothers, Marvin Vincent Lake, Waverly, Donald Keith Lake, [missing rest]