LEE, Bernice L. (1913-1964)

LEE, CORNELIUS, PALS, BARRICK

Posted By: Hancock Co Genealogical Society (email)
Date: 8/22/2013 at 21:14:20

Mrs. N. Lee dies at Britt
Rites Monday

BRITT - Mrs. A. Norman (Bernice Leone) Lee, 50, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at her home here Thursday. Funeral services will be Monday at 1 p.m. at the Britt Methodist Church. The Rev. Warren S. Paige will officiate. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery with Grupe Funeral Home in charge.

Bernice Leone Cornelius was born in Mason City Dec. 21, 1913. She was married to Norman Lee in the Mason City Methodist Church Nov. 2, 1938. She had been a secretary at the Palmeter Insurance Company in Mason City.

Surviving are her husband, a partner in the Lee-Grifhorst Drugstore in Britt; two daughters, Mrs. Dallas (Katherine) Pals, Pocahontas; Miss Merle Lee, a student at Mason City Junior College; her mother, Mrs. Clifford Barrick, Mason City. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Jeffrey Lee Pals.

Mrs. Lee was a past president of the Hancock County Little Theater; past president of Britt Women's Club, Past Noble Grand of the Rebekah Lodge; active in Girl Scouts and Brownies and the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church in Britt.

source: Globe Gazette, Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa; May 15, 1964, Page 7

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2012