George A. Drake, age 84 of Stratford, the widower of Margaret Mary Biriscak Drake, died Thursday, November 13, 2008. Born in Bridgeport to the late Arthur and Josephine Keenan Drake, George has been a lifelong area resident living in Stratford for the pat 57 years. He was a retired Accountant with Remington Arms in Bridgeport and a veteran of the United States Navy during WWII. Survivors include his daughter Joanne Helgren and her husband John Praskac of Palm City FL and two sons Lee Alan Drake and his wife Patricia of Stratford and David Drake of NY, NY. Funeral services will take place on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 9:15 am in the Adzima Funeral Home 50 Paradise Green Place Stratford and at 10 am in Unity Hill United Church 264 White Plains Road Trumbull. Interment with Full Military Honors will take place in Union Cemetery Stratford. Friends and family may call on Monday from 4-7 pm. In lieu of flowers the family request that donations in George's memory be made to The CT Hospice 100 Double Beach Road, Branford, CT 06405 or to the National Kidney Foundation of CT. Inc. 920 Farmington Ave, W. Hartford, CT 06107