United States House of Representative Member, Joyce Beatty, is shown above on end of  top row on right in red

She represents Ohio’s 3rd Congressional District


Congratulations to our LAKE cousin Joyce Beatty, shown above right standing behind Nancy Pelosi as one of the record number of women elected to Congress on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. 

She is a Daughter of Herman and Annie Reeder, and granddaughter of Mary Lake Reeder and John Reeder. 

Her great-grandparents were  Mary Wilson Lake and Burr Lake. Burr Lake was a son of Henry Lake-  her great-great grandfather.

 Congresswoman Beatty’s Aunt was Eula Lake Reeder Coleman, the mother of Christine Coleman Walker of Virginia and Marcellus Coleman of New Jersey and several other siblings.

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Congresswoman Joyce Beatty was sworn in as a Member of the United States House of Representatives by House Speaker John Boehner January 3rd, 2013.  (Official Portrait of US Rep. Joyce Beatty shown on right.)

 

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Respectfully Submitted by Marcellus Coleman of New Jersey and Rodney Williams of Idyllwild, California, Editor of The LAKE Family from Newberry, SC,  Facebook Family Group Page

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