A Masonic service with military honors for former Sheridan resident Carl Frederick Wake, 92, of Cheyenne, will take place 4 p.m. Monday at Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.

Mr. Wake died May 22, 2008, at Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne. Cremation took place at Cheyenne Memorial Gardens under the direction of Wiederspahn-Radomsky Chapel of the Chimes in Cheyenne in May.

Born April 16, 1916, in Marmarth, N.D., to Carl Vennigerholz and Dorothy Bouldin, he graduated from Sheridan High School in 1935.

He worked as a sales clerk at Central Grocery Co. in Sheridan from 1936 until 1938 and as a department manager of Stevens, Fryberger & Co., The New York of Sheridan from 1938 until he was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942.

He married Marcia A. Stutsman in May 2, 1942, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Sheridan.

In the Army he earned the rank of first lieutenant through the adjutant general's Officer Candidate School. He was stationed at Camp Hale as chief storekeeper, Quartermaster Corps, and then served as assistant exchange officer of the Army at Fort Francis E. Warren and the exchange officer at Fort Logan, Colo.

He also served as president of the Rocky Mountain Exchange Officers Association, United States Army and Air Force in Denver. Following his honorable discharge in 1946, he returned to Sheridan, where he was manager and personnel director of Stevens Fryberger & Co. from 1947 until 1957.

He was president of the Department of Wyoming Reserve Officers Association of the U.S. Army from 1952 until 1953 and was national councilman from 1953 until 1954.

He was commander of John Donald Garbut Post 7 of the American Legion in Sheridan from 1953 until 1954 and on the board of trustees from 1955 until 1957. He was director of the Sheridan Chamber from 1956 until 1957. He was also a Sheridan Lodge 8 Mason.

In 1961, Mr. Wake co-founded and was senior vice-president of Bayer, Hebert, Wake & Co. Inc., brokerage firm in Cheyenne. He later served as a registered representative for Bosworth, Sullivan & Co. of Denver; Roberts, Scott & Company Inc. of San Diego; and W.C. Langley and Co. of Denver.

In semiretirement, he was a real estate salesman in Colorado and general manager of the Pine Valley Country Club of Pine Valley, Colo.

He retired from the Army in 1976, having earned the rank of major AUS through the Reserve Officers Association. He and his wife returned to Cheyenne in 1980.

He is survived by his wife; three daughters, Linda Kelley and Diana McDougal, both of Cheyenne, and Jill Robinson of Laramie; two sisters, Beatrice Turner of North Platte, Neb. and Dorothy French of Mesa, Ariz.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The Sheridan Press – August 16, 2008.