Skeeter Lee, Sr., 86, of Nederland, passed away Monday, April 27, 2009.
A Funeral Mass is scheduled for 10:00 A.M., Thursday, April 30, 2009 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Nederland, with Reverend Dan Malain officiating. Interment and military honors will follow at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Port Neches. A gathering of family and friends with be Wednesday evening from 5:00P.M. - 8:00 P.M. at Broussard’s in Nederland.
A native of Indian Bayou, Louisiana, Skeeter has lived in Nederland all of his life, where he and his father owned Tom and Skeeter’s Café for twenty-one years. He retired from Western and Southern Life Insurance Company as an agent after fifteen years of service. Skeeter served his country in World War II as a radioman in the Army Air Corps. He remained active involving himself with the Knights of Columbus, Eagles Lodge # 3743 in Nederland, V.F.W. and the American Legion. A cliché that Skeeter lived by and passed on the others, “Let your conscience be your guide”.
Mr. Lee was preceded in death by his wife, Jeannie Lee.
He is survived by daughter, Sharon Roberts of Groves; sons, Skeeter Lee, Jr. and his wife Darlene of Nederland, Aaron Leo Lee and his wife Sheila of Groves and George Lee of Nederland; sisters, Joyce Smith and her husband Elmer of Kountze and Neva Ann Brown of Leaksville, Mississippi; sister-in-law, Marjie Lee of Houma, Louisiana; eleven grandchildren, Kenney Setliff, Kristi Abshire, T.J. Roberts, Aaron Lee, Lyndsi Chambless, Diane Brook, Marie Lee, Shelby Lee, Joe Massengil, and Baron Morris; and eleven great grandchildren.
Memorial contribution may be made to American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 5144, Beaumont, Texas 77726.
