ESTHER LEE, 95

Esther Rogers Lee, 95 of Oakland, died Friday, Nov. 2, 2007 at the Oakland Heights Nursing Home. Funeral services are 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, at the Pelan Funeral Home in Tekamah. Interment will be in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Decatur.

Esther Rogers Lee was born Aug. 15, 1912 at Kadoka, S.D., to Harry O. French and Pearl Trimble. Her mother died when she was three months old and she was raised by her grandmother, Elizabeth Marr French, in Decatur.

She attended elementary and high school in Decatur.

In 1927, she married Charles F. Rogers of Decatur. They had three children. Throughout her life, she had some interesting jobs. She worked for a doctor in Decatur; several veterinarians in Tekamah; and was a dispatcher and deputy sheriff in the Burt County Sheriff’s Office. After the death of her husband in 1969, she married Myron Lee in 1979 and moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1971, she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and was an active member as long as her health permitted.

She is survived by her children, Gennie Elliott of Craig, Ralph and Oma Rogers of Dakota Dunes, S.D., and Wanda and Donald Dyson of Lyons; two stepchildren and their spouses: Bob and Jane Lee, and Virginia and Terry Anderson, all of Salt Lake City; 13 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; and many relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husbands; two sisters, Fern Harmon and Evelyn Underwood; two brothers, Orville and Bryon French; and a grandson, Gerald Pond Jr.

Memorials are suggested to the Oakland Heights Nursing Home.