"Sadly, Mom died December 6, 2018, 3 ½ months short of her 100th birthday, a milestone she truly wanted to reach! She just got tired. Mom, born March 19, 1919, to
Inez Gose Lee and Colonel Arthur Hurd Lee, in Hennessey, OK, and raised in OK, Honolulu, and NC, attended Duke University, 2 years, where she was a reporter/cartoonist for Duke’s newspaper.
She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Oklahoma University with a BA degree in Art; teaching staff of American Institute of Banking, Alumnae Admission Advisory Committee for Duke University; President, Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae; President, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni; awarded Phi Beta Kappa of Year ’97; Chairman Women’s Division, Association for Responsible Government;
Director, Volunteers Council of OKC; State Advisory Committee, OK Landmarks Project; VP and Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society; Committee, Capital Improvements; Chairman, OKC Board of Adjustment; Chairman, OK Crime Commission; Ex-Officio Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, Association of Central OK Governments; OKC Criminal Justice Council; Judicial Advisory Committee;
Director OKC Office, Senator David L. Boren;
League of Women Voters; Director of Volunteers and Board of Trustees, Presbyterian Hospital; Chairman Women’s Association, OKC Art Center; Co-chairman Residential Division and Board, United Appeal; Board member Community Council; Board member and Officer, Junior League of OKC; Chairman, OKC Charity Horse Show; Daughters of American Revolution; President, Colonial Dames of America; Philomathea Study Club; President, Wednesday Review Club; OKC Zoo Association; Board member and Officer, Free to Live Animal Sanctuary; Board, OKC Pet Task Force of Citizens Advisory Committee; Japanese-American Student Exchange Committee; Kirkpatrick center Associates; Trustee, Kirkpatrick Foundation; Twentieth Century Club; and, President, OK Art Council. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral. On a personal note, Mom and Dad were married 57 years before Dad passed away in 1999. "
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Inez Gose Lee
BIRTH
1895
USA
DEATH
16 Jun 1989 (aged 93–94)
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
BURIAL
Rose Hill Burial Park
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
PLOT
Old Mausoleum
MEMORIAL ID
69737172 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 2
Obituary, The Oklahoman, June 20, 1989
"Inez Gose Lee, Oklahoma City and Houston, died June 16, 1989, at her home in Houston at the age of 94. Mrs. Lee received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music Degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and had done post graduate study at Chicago Musical College, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Northwest University, Evanston, Illinois. She pursued special music study in New York and Honolulu. Her hobby was language and she studied French, Italian, Spanish and German.
She was
a banker and rancher in addition to being a musician and composer. She was vice president and director of Farmers and Merchants Bank, Hennessey, and her ranching interests were in Kingfisher and Logan Counties.
Organizations which she served as president include Army and Navy Womens Club (World War II), Oklahoma Phi Delta Theta Mothers Club, Campfire Girls, Ladies Music Club, Young Womens Christian Association, Oklahoma Art League, Wednesday Review Club, and 5 terms as president of Town Hall.
She had been vice regent and regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, chairman of the Interdenominational Choir, Oklahoma City, and had served on both the National Campfire Board and Council. She was awarded the National Campfire Gulick Award. Her other memberships include Womens Drivers Corps (World War II), Patroness Group of Sigma Alpha Iota, Symphony Society, Womens Committee for the Oklahoma City Symphony, Art Center Association, Alliance Francaise, American Guild of Organists, Chi Omega and Sigma Alpha Iota, both at the University of Michigan. She served on the board of directors of the State Federation of Music Clubs and held memberships in the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, Lakeside Country Club, Houston, and the Houston Symphony League.
She leaves 2 children, Mrs. Jerome W. Byrd, Oklahoma City, and Robert E. Lee, Houston, 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Burial services and interment will be held Wednesday, June 21, 11:30 a.m., at the Old Mausoleum, Rose Hill Cemetery. Arrangements by Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper.
All friends are welcome."
