Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[Note - this is Julia Bessie (Willard) Lake]

Dallas newspaper - March 17, 1952

Last Rites Planned For Mrs. Lake, 69

Mrs. Julia Bessie Lake, 69, 1102 Lausanne, a Dallas resident for twenty-five
years, died Sunday in a hospital here.
A native of Freestone County, she lived with her daughter, Mrs. William G.
Medaris. She is survived by a son, M. E. Lake of Corsicana; two daughters, Mrs.
Medaris and Mrs. Gladys Redden, both of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. L. H. Withrow
of Teague and Mrs. Frank Duggan of Waco; one brother, Jim Willard of Fairfield;
six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Services will be in Corley Funeral Chapel in Corsicana at 10:30 a.m.
Monday with the Rev. W. M. Shamburger, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Corsicana, officiating. Burial will be Dallas' Laurel Land Memorial Park with
graveside services at 1:30 p.m. Monday.