Oscar W. Lake

Obituary

Class of 1938

Sept. 15, 1919 – Mar. 15, 1944

PAYETTE — Military services have been conducted in San Francisco for Pvt. Oscar W. Lake, formerly of Willow Creek, who died in California from injuries received in an automobile accident shortly after he recovered from jungle fever contracted while serving in New Guinea with the Army.

Private Lake was born at Long Valley Sept. 15, 1919, but had made his home at Willow Creek with W. J. Mathews since he was nine years old. He entered military service in 1940, but after serving in the South Pacific was returned for treatment to a Modesto, Calif., hospital. After his release from the hospital he entered a training school there, and was attending the school at the time of the accident.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Olive Pierce Lake, formerly of Payette; his mother, Mrs. Clara Benton of Seattle; his father, Oscar Lake of Portland; and two sisters, Mrs. Marie Tasn of Seattle and Mrs. Helen Bishop of New Meadows.

From The Idaho Statesman – Boise, Idaho – Wednesday, March 15, 1944