WILMINGTON — Jean Marie Walthall Lake, 89, entered the life eternal Tuesday, June 20, 2017. She was born Nov. 26, 1927, in Roanoke, Va., the daughter of Eugene L. Urick and Ruth Williams. She was preceded in death by her parents and by her grandparents, Edna R. Williams, Roy Williams, Kathryn Evans Urick and Irvins Urick.
Jean graduated from Jefferson High School in Roanoke and attended National Business College there. In 1948, she married Lacy M. Walthall Jr., also of Roanoke, and moved with her husband, who was a special agent with the FBI, to FBI offices in Minnesota, Missouri, Connecticut and in Fayetteville, N.C., for 27 years. While living in Fayetteville, she was a secretary in the Pope School – Ft. Bragg Dependent School.
In retirement years, Jean and her husband built a house on Figure Eight Island, where they lived for 17 years. During those years, they traveled to many places in the continental United States, Alaska, Egypt and most of the countries in Europe.
The couple moved to Plantation Village in 1999, and in 2008, shortly after their 60th wedding anniversary, Lacy died. Jean married her longtime friend, and fellow Plantation Village resident, Levin Lake, a retired Episcopalian priest, in 2009, and they continued to live in the Village.
Jean is survived by her husband, The Rev. Levin Lake; children, David G. Walthall, and his wife, Ruth Sherrill Walthall, Lacy M. Walthall III, and his wife, Deborah Smith Walthall; grandchildren Matthew, Joshua, Brian and Lacy IV; and great-grandchildren, Charlotte and Juliet Walthall.
Jean was a warm, caring, generous and fun-loving person, who will be sorely missed. While her family and her many friends mourn her loss, we all know that she has achieved the bliss of eternal life with the Lord whom she loved.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Friday, June 23, at St. Andrew’s On-the-Sound Episcopal Church, with interment in Roanoke, Va.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Andrew’s On-the-Sound will be appreciated, or contributions to a favorite charity.
“Rest eternal grant her, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon her.”
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