SERVICES ARE HERE FOR LYLE JEROME LEE

Services for Lyle Lee were held at First Christian Church on June 12, 1979, in Blair at 2 p.m. He died at Blair Hospital after a lingering illness on June 9, 1979.

Lyle Jerome Lee was born to Myrtle (Barnett) and Patrick Lee at Aurora, Nebraska, on November 7, 1902 into a family of three sisters and two brothers. He spent his early life in Nebraska and married Edith Elizabeth Frain of Blair on March 12, 1932. They had no children and lived in Woodstock, Illinois, for 23 years as manager of a Country Home Estate. He was baptized in the Christian faith in 1942. He was also a Nobel Grand and a Chaplain in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge (I.O.O.F.)

Due to his parents’ ill health, the couple also lived a number of years at St. Paul and Grand Island. He and his wife came back to Blair in August, 1976 to make their home.

He is survived by his wife, Edith; three sisters, Margurite Delores Stoffel, Mrs. Breakman, Leora Debowski; two brothers, Earl and Frances Lee of the Grand Island area, and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers for the services were Dean Lee, George Frain, Garold Frain, Jerry Dembowski, Robert Meinecke, and Floyd Triplett.