Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, October 6, 2012, at 10 a.m. at Alva Municipal Cemetery with Matt Haney, pastor, Shattuck First Christian Church officiating. Wharton Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be made to . www.whartonfuneralchapel.com

William Lee, son of Vada Jean (Smithson) and Robert Lee Witchey, was born September 8, 1951 in Alva, Oklahoma. He passed away in an automobile accident, near Woodward, on the 29th of September at the age of 61 years and 21 days.

He attended the Great Bend, Kansas School System and graduated with the class of 1969.

In 1969 he joined the United States Navy where he received the National Defense Service Medal and a Good Conduct Award. He achieved his lifelong dream of working on submarines and computers and was Honorably Discharged on June 22, 1977.

After he was discharged he worked for Digital Services Corporation in New York until 1982 when he transferred to Denver and continued working in the computer industry.

On September 9, 1994 he was married to Kelly Diane Clarkston. To this marriage Brianna Lee was born.

Following their marriage they made their home in Denver until 2004 when they moved back to Oklahoma where he was still working for Great Plains Sleep Studies.

He was a member of the Shattuck First Christian Church.

He was preceded in death by his father Bob and a sister Bobbie Jean Mullins.

Will is survived by his wife Kelly Diane and his daughter Brianna Lee of the home; his mother Vada; two sisters, Shirley and Tracy; a niece Jessica and her husband John; a nephew, Shayne; a great niece, Molly; a great nephew, Robbie; mother and father-in-law, Sally and Larry; brother- in-law, Todd and his wife Chanida; a stepmother-in-law, Linda Lee; other relatives and friends.