Nelle Lee Graham

GRAHAM, LEE, GOSHORN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/6/2006 at 19:39:33

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
June 12, 1963

MRS. LEE GRAHAM Buried Friday

Mrs. Lee Graham of Winterset, whose death occurred last Wednesday, June 5, 1963, at Memorial hospital in Winterset, was a resident of this community practically all her life. She was the former Nelle Ruth Lee, daughter of C.P. and Urilla Goshorn Lee, and was born in Winterset April 20, 1879. She was 84 years of age at her death.

She was married Feb. 22, 1899, to Lee A. Graham of Winterset. Much of her active life was spent working with her husband in the operation of Graham's Photographic studio here, in which she gained a large circle of friends and acquaintances. She and Mr. Graham had been retired in recent years.

She was affiliated with the Presbyterian church.

Mrs. Graham was the mother of three sons. One son, Frederick, died at the age of 24 years. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Harry L. Graham of Des Moines and Joe D. Graham of Winterset; and a granddaughter, Susan Graham, a registered nurse, who took her training in Des Moines.

Funeral services were held Friday at 2 p.m. from the Wilson Funeral home conducted by the Rev. John E. Fink, pastor of the First United Presbyterian church of Winterset. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.