Minnie M. (Deeter) Lee (1960)

LEE, DEETER, HOPPER, ROSEBRUGH, DOOLEY

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 2/26/2007 at 20:37:37

Winterset Madisonian, June 29, 1960
Winterset, Iowa

NATIVE OF WINTERSET BURIED IN COLORADO

Mrs. Fred Lee, a native of Winterset, died recently at Robstown, Tex., where she had been living the last several years with her daughter, Mrs. Tom Hopper.

Mrs. Lee was 90 years of age, and was a pioneer resident of Lamar, Colo. She was the widow of the late Fred Lee. She was the former Minnie M. Deeter.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee moved to Lamar in 1886 from Winterset, when the sale of town lots was held. They engaged in the confectionary bakery and theater business there over a long period of years.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Hopper and Mrs. Letha Rosenbrugh of Robstown, Tex., and Mrs. Marie Dooley of Los Angeles; and a son, Harry B. Lee of Lamar.

Funeral services and burial were held at Lamar.