Mary C. Lake; Retired Sears Saleswoman
Former Oxnard resident Mary C. Lake, an award-winning saleswoman for Sears Roebuck, died Monday in Las Vegas after a lengthy illness. She was 66.
Lake was born Dec. 7, 1929, in Chicago. After moving West, Lake worked as a saleswoman at the Sears store in Oxnard selling major appliances, a field dominated at the time by men.
“There are salespeople and there are salespeople,” said her granddaughter-in-law, Pam Goyeneche. “She went in and really showed those men.”
Lake kept her job with Sears after moving to Las Vegas, giving up her 18-year career with the company only after diabetes forced her to stop in 1995.
“It was her whole life,” Goyeneche said. “She just gave her whole heart with that job.”
Lake is survived by a granddaughter, Dianne Zoll of Lodi, and her husband Kevin; a grandson, Joe Goyeneche of Ventura, and his wife, and cousins Peggy Rizzo and Mike Hamelin of Oklahoma, and Larry and Michele Anderson of Illinois.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Joseph P. Reardon Funeral Home in Ventura.
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