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© The Chickasha Express-Star June 13, 2003 September 16, 1928 ~ July 14, 2016 Funeral services for William Neil "Bill" Lee, 75, of Verden, Okla., will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 16, 2003, at Verden First Baptist Church. Rev. Ed Whitley will officiate. William Neil "Bill" Lee was born Sept. 9, 1927, and died on Thursday, June 12, 2003. Burial will be in Verden Cemetery, Verden, under the direction of McRay's Verden Funeral Home. © The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma June 15, 2003 September 16, 1928 ~ July 14, 2016 Funeral service for William "Bill" Neil Lee, age 75, of Verden, Oklahoma, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 16, 2003, at the Verden First Baptist Church. Rev Edward Whitley will officiate. William "Bill" Neil Lee was born September 9, 1927, in Portland, Oregon, of Canadian parents. This gave him a duel citizenship. He chose to be a citizen of the U.S.A. when he became of age. In 1940, at the age of 13, he joined the Canadian Pacific steamship company as a busboy on the run from Seattle, Washington, to Alaska. During the war years, he worked with the U.S. Army Transport running supplies at high tide to the troops stationed on the Aleutian Islands. He returned to Portland, Oregon, as soon as he reached the age he could enlist in the Army Air Corps. Bill served in the Counter Intelligence the last three years of enlistment. In the spam of the five years following his discharge he simultaneously worked at a variety of interesting jobs from truck driving, short order cook, mail carrier delivering mail by boat, a logger in the forest of Coastal Oregon, ambulance driver, manager of an ice cream parlor making his own ice cream, commercial salmon fisherman and tax work for a local C.P.A. In 1952, with the backing and encouragement from friends, he entered Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Four years later at the age of 29, he received a B.S. degree in economics. He was hired by State Farm to begin work in their new regional office in Salem, Oregon. Later he transferred to Kennewick, Washington, where he remained for ten years. In 1970, he began working for the General Adjustment Bureau and moved his family to Verden, Oklahoma, while working out of the Lawton office. Several years later he joined the Pool Mortgage Company of Chickasha. When Pool Mortgage closed he joined Erv Hall, Independent Adjuster out of Cement until he retired to become a full time farmer. Having missed the high school experience he was always encouraging young people to achieve the best of their ability and he believed that education was the way to reach this goal. He was extremely honored to have received the Honorary State Farmers Award at the F. F. A. State Convention in Oklahoma City. Bill was elected to the Verden School Board from 1990 - 2000. He served with the Verden Volunteer Fire Department and Verden Cemetery board for many years. Bill was also a dedicated member of the Masonic Lodge #329, Lions Club of Verden and the American Legion of Anadarko. Bill entered the Lords' home on June 12, 2003, with his family at his side. He was preceded in death by his 17-year-old son, William Curtis Lee in 1970. Survivors include: wife of 50 years: Kaye Loveless Lee of the home; daughter and son-in-law: Jennifer and Bruce Bates of Chickasha; granddaughter: Leslie Bates of Chickasha; daughter and son-in-law: Jeannette and Chris Thompson of Verden; granddaughters: Samantha and Stevie Kaye Thompson of Verden. Interment will be in the Verden Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the McRay's Verden Funeral Home. |
Verden, Oklahoma July 2016 September 16, 1928 ~ July 14, 2016 Lovie Kaye Lee was born on September 16, 1928 in Mercedes, Texas. She moved to a farm south of Verden in 1930 and lived there until she left for college. Kaye attended OCW [Oklahoma College of Women] for a Bachelor degree of Education. Kaye taught her first year in Clovis, New Mexico with a classroom size of 40 students. Kaye tells people she had no cell phone or tv and the land phone was so expensive that it was never used. The early years included severe dust storms at night and she was forced to sleep with wash cloths on her face. The depression didn't affect her greatly - as living on the farm they always had plenty to eat. Other things they needed were butchered. Kaye attended Oklahoma State University the summer of 1951 and stayed with her aunt and uncle who were professors at OSU. Kaye didn't want to go back to Clovis - Bonita [her roommate for 4 years and bridesmaid] was going overseas. That was when Kaye used an atlas to find two towns with exciting names: Newport and Coosbay on the Oregon coast. Newport wired Kaye and Coosbay wrote her offering her a job. Kaye chose Newport. Kaye left Oklahoma City at mid-night with 100-degree weather and when she arrived in Newport she nearly froze. Not knowing anyone Kaye took a bus to Newport and the superintendent met her and was supposed to have a room for her, but with it being the last week of summer there was not a room to be had! He drove her by where the teachers that were returning from last year lived and he told her they didn’t want an Okie living with them. The teachers agreed to let Kaye stay one night. That evening a group of young men came by to visit the three teachers. They invited them out to eat and go dancing at the local country club. Kaye met Neil before she was even able to see the ocean. The next day the three teachers asked her to move in with them for the school year. Neil proposed on Valentines day and they were married the following summer. In the fall of 1953 they moved to Salem. Neil entered college at Willamette. It was difficult for Neil as he had never attended high school. After the first semester was over it was a breeze for him. While living on the East Coast she was blessed with three wonderful children: William Curtis was born in January 1953, Jennifer Ann was born in April of 1959 and Jeannette Louise was born in July of 1963. In 1970 their family moved back to her hometown of Verden, Oklahoma. Shortly after that they suffered a terrible tragedy. Their 17-year-old son went to California to attend a church camp. When Curtis arrived in Oklahoma he was invited to join his cousin Grant Loveless and the youth group of the First Baptist Church of Chickasha’s annual Falls Creek Camp. After returning from camp he was heading back for the Sunday night Falls Creek service on Grand Ave off of Lake Burchee road, where he lost control of his car and lost his life. Kaye spoke of having to look at her life and stop to think about the two wonderful daughters that needed her now more than ever. Neil and Kaye walked many miles and cried many tears on the farm. They would come back to the house and face another day with the girls. Kaye wrote to her children that; one will face many unpleasant things during a life - that is life - you have no choice. However, how you react is your decision. Life continued with ups and downs of normal everyday living. Neil was faced with lung cancer - another part of life - her tears once again in seclusion - a happy face for the rest of the world. Once again cancer rattled their lives when she was faced with breast cancer. Kaye put on a strong face and always had a positive attitude with a warm spirit surrounding her. Kaye would always say "her life is wonderful thanks to her family and trust in the Lord who has been her best friend since the third grade. Kaye has joined her husband Neil of sixty plus years and their son Curtis in Heaven. Kaye always said she has a family that is unbelievably fantastic and her two daughters blessed her with 3 granddaughters, 3 grandson-in-laws and five great grandchildren. Jennifer and Bruce Bates [of Chickasha] blessed Kaye with a daughter Leslie and son-in-law Dustin Lindsey of Edmond. Jeannette and Chris Thompson (of Verden) blessed her with Samantha and her husband Caylon Kimball, children Ri-Lee, Kaden and Aspyn Kaye of Robins Air Force Base, Georgia and also blessed her with Stevie Kaye and son-in-law Chez McMillan, children Rylee and Gracee of Verden. |
Oklshoma City, Oklahoma January 2018 December 1, 1930 ~ January 21, 2018 Donald Roy Lee 87 of Anadarko, Oklahoma passed from this life on January 21, 2018 at the VA hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was born on December 1, 1930 in Florence, Arizona to Orb K. and Mary Jane [Post] Lee. Donald joined the United States Army in 1952 and served in the Korean war. He married the love of his life Evelyn Wadlow on March 2, 1979 in Osage, Oklahoma. Donald loved traveling, seeing and meeting new people. He will be missed by all who knew him. Donald is survived by his wife Evelyn of Osage, Oklahoma, 1 son: Christopher Lee and wife Stephanie of Cheyenne, Oklahoma, 2 daughters: Nancy Lee Blakeman and husband Gordon of Roseville, California, Diana Carol Lee of Lindsey, Oklahoma, 3 brothers: Alvin Lee and wife Hazel of Chickasha, Oklahoma, Marvin Lee of Cogar, Oklahoma Jerry Lee of Anadarko, Oklahoma, 2 sisters: Helen Green of Chickasha, Oklahoma Pat Lee of Anadarko, Oklahoma. Preceded in death by: his parents, sister Velta, and son Donald [Donnie] Roy Lee Jr. Graveside service: 1:00 PM Thursday, January 25, 2018 Verden Cemetery, Verden, Oklahoma Under the direction of Ray & Martha's Funeral Home Anadarko. |
© The Chickasha Express Chickasha, Oklahoma Tuesday, August 11, 1970 January 27, 1953 ~ August 9, 1970 Verden--Graveside rites for William Curtis Lee, 17, will be at 10:30 am Wednesday in the Verden Cemetery. Dr. David C. Hall, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chickasha, will officiate. Lee was fatally injured about 5:30 pm Sunday. While enroute to a Sunday evening youth service at the First Baptist Church in Chickasha, Lee lost control of his car while driving down a steep hill six miles west of Chickasha on Grand Avenue. He was thrown from the car which overturned several times. Lee, who would have been a senior this fall at Chickasha High School recently moved with his parents from Kennewick, Wash. He was a member of Methodist Youth Fellowship in the First United Methodist Church in Kennewick and was a member of the Kennewick De-Moley. He had attended Kennewick High School where he was active in the band. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Neil Lee; two sisters, Jennifer Ann Lee and Jeanette Louise Lee, all of the home; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Loveless of Verden, and Mrs. Edith Hoover of Garden Bay, British Columbia. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Hansen Funeral Home, Verden. |
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