(June 6, 1867-September 4, 1938)

Mrs. Catherine Agnes Lake, widow of the late Angus J. Lake, died suddenly about 8 o’clock Sunday evening, at her home, 20 Buck street, following an attack of acute indigestion. She had been in her usual good health and had spent the day with her family and relatives, who were visiting at the home over the week-end. She was stricken as she was completing the work after the evening meal. Dr. Ernest Stretton was summoned, an oxygen tank was procured and all possible aid was administered to bring relief. Her condition rapidly became worse and the end came within a few minutes. With her at death were her daughter, Miss Mary Lake; son, Walter Lake; sister, Mrs. "Ellen Peggs; niece, Mrs. Edson Martin, Canton, and nephew, Paul O’Brien of Marlboro, Mass. Funeral service will be held Wednesday morning at 8:45 from the home and at 9:30 from St. Mary’s Church, with Rev. Father Clarence Devan officiating at requiem mass. Burial will be made in Riverside Cemetery.

Mrs. Lake, the eldest of a family of four children, was born at Norwood, June 6, 1867, a daughter of the late David and Bridget Quinn O’Brien. She attended Norwood schools and Potsdam State Normal, after which she taught for eight years in district schools in this community. She was married to Angus J. Lake of Canton, Oct. 6, 1891. The ceremony was performed in St. Mary’s Church by the late Very Rev. Dean James O’Driscoll. The couple lived for a time at a home in Elm Street and for the past forty years, she had lived in the home in Buck Street, in which she died. Mr. Lake was a Western Union telegraph operator for many years in this village. He died March 1, 1914.

Mrs. Lake was a member of St. Mary’s Church and St. Mary’s Sewing Society. Throughout her life, she was most devoted to her family and in her home, where her many friends were always warmly welcomed. She enjoyed being in circles but not as much as the pleasures and contentment she found in the associations with her friends in her home.

Remaining are a son, Walter G. Lake, Canton village mail carrier; Miss Mary Lake, secretary in the administration office at the State School of Agriculture; sister, Mrs. Ellen M. Peggs, who resides at the Lake home; two brothers, William O’Brien of Albany and John O’Brien of Utica; also, several nieces and nephews. A son, John Lake, died Feb. 28, 1915, while a student at St. Lawrence University, and a son, Robert Lake, passed April 22, 1928.

(From the Tuesday, September 6, 1938 edition of the Canton Commercial Advertiser, front page. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).