Lewis Albert Drake

Services will be held at 10:30 AM Wednesday at the Lane Funeral Home Mineral Ridge Chapel for Lewis A. Drake, 94, of Mineral Ridge who passed away Saturday morning in Forum Health Northside Medical Center. Lewis, also known as “Babe”, was born September 24, 1912 in Mineral Ridge, the son of Lewis Allen and Mary (Ohl) Drake and was a life long area resident. He retired as a truck driver from Warren Sanitary which was originally the Riverside Dairy in 1977. Prior to that he had worked for his father at the Drake and McConnell Grist Mill from 1927 until the late 1930’s, and then for W.A. Harshman Trucking Company starting in 1937. He is believed to be the oldest direct descendant of the Ohl Family founders of the village of Ohltown. He had been a member of the original Ohltown United Methodist Church where he was baptized. His wife, the former Dorothy Anne O’Bryant, whom he married January 4, 1937, passed away February 25, 1992. Lewis leaves four children: Lewis Albert Jr. (Joyce) of New Jersey, Douglas Allen (Leilani) of Boardman, Peggy (Philip) Smida of Canfield, and Cynthia (Jeff) Snoke of Poland, nine grandchildren: Lewis Albert III, and Shari Drake, Heather (Dave) Celona, Douglas Jr., Danielle, and Jonathan Drake, Philip Smida II, Anthony, Nicholas, and Julianne Dota, and two great grandchildren: Nicholas, and Matthew Celona. Besides his wife, Lewis is preceded in death by a granddaughter: Amy Smida, three brothers: Wilbur, Walter, and James Drake, and two sisters: Mary Pugh, and Josephine Drake. Family and friends may call from 4 to 7 PM Tuesday and again from 9:30 to 10:30 AM Wednesday at the Lane Funeral Home Mineral Ridge Chapel.