Obit: Dake, Ray (1886 - 1943)

Contact: Linda Mertens
Email: mertens@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Dake, Daeke, Habeck, Geary, Johnson

----Source - Anna Johnson's Scrapbook

Ray Dake (5 May 1886 - 11 Aug 1943)

Dorchester--Ray Dake, 57, resident of the Town of Mayville for many years, died at his home Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock of a heart attack. He had been in ill health for the past two years.

Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. John Brandt Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home and at 2 o’clock at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church. Burial will be made in Memorial cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Fuchsgruber Funeral Parlors until Friday, when it will be taken to the home in the Town of Mayville.

Ray Dake was born in Phillips May 5, 1886, and moved to the Town of Mayville with his parents when a youth. He was married to Mollie Habeck Oct. 30, 1912, at Two Rivers. The couple lived in Dorchester that winter while Mr. Dake cleared his land southwest of the village.

In 1915 they built a new home on their farm and lived there for two years, then moving to his parent’s farm. In 1922 they purchased their present farm west of Dorchester on County Trunk A. In 1933 Mr. Dake took over the county road patrol and held it until he fractured his arm two years ago. Since then he had been in poor health.

Mr. Dake was an active member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and was an elder of the congregation.

Surviving besides his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Willard (Cynthia) Geary, Curtiss; five sons, Melvin, Springfield, Ill., now at home for the summer, Cpl. Lester, Camp Maxey, Texas, Wayne, Reinbeck, Iowa, Ray Jr., at home, and Delbert, Reinbeck, Ia.; and one sister, Mrs. Albert (Hattie) Johnson. One brother and two sisters preceded him in death.