Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Lake, Maxine Ione (Smith) (Mrs. Hersel) February 4, 1997
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Ionia Sentinel Standard - Feb. 1997


Maxine Ione Lake, 78, of Lake City, died Feb. 4, 1997 at Autumnwood of McBain.

She was born Maxine I. Smith on Oct. 4, 1918, the daughter of Verne and Lillian 
(Zimmerman) Smith. She graduated from Ionia High School in 1937. She married 
Hersel Lake April 23, 1938 in Ionia. She worked as a nurse’s aide for 19 ½ 
years and after that she worked for Essex’s Electric in Boyne City for 13 
years. She retired in 1983, The past few years she and her husband have lived 
in the Lake City area. She loved to travel, knit and crochet. She was a 
follower of the Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral TV Ministry.

She is survived by her husband, Hersel Lake of Lake City; children, LaVonne 
Ione (William) Bennett of Ionia, Thomas Daniel (Roberta) Lake of Ionia, Ivan 
Herbert Lake of Delton and Louis Milton (Allison) Lake of Wayland; nine 
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-
law, Celstine (Stanley) Abbot of Grand Rapids, Leo Lake of Kalamazoo, L.G. 
(Helen) Lake of Saranac, Morrison (Virginia) Lake of Saranac, Emmaline Smith of 
Orleans and Eleanor Smith Tennessee.

She was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers, Jerry Smith, Alden 
Smith, Asaph Smith and Wayne Smith.

Funeral services will be Monday, Feb. 10, 1997 at 11 a.m. at the Cool Funeral 
Home in Ionia with rev. Kendall Harger officiating. Visitation will be one hour 
prior to the service. Arrangements were made by the Burkholder Funeral Home in 
McBain.

Memorial contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s research.



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