Sonoma County CA Archives Obituaries.....Lee, Edward Galen October 5, 1979
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat, October 1979
Edward Lee dies at 90
Edward Galen Lee, a self-made Santa Rosa historian and expert on the 1906 San 
Francisco earthquake, died Friday at Community Hospital after a long illness.
Lee, 90, who developed an at-home recreational complex in the Larkfield area of 
Santa Rosa, was born near Council Grove, Kan., and came to California with his 
family in 1891.  The family moved to Oregon and Washington and finally back to 
California, settling in the Fulton area in 1900.
Lee attended Fulton grammar school and was one of the first five-star lettermen 
at Santa Rosa High where he and his brother, Richard, starred in athletics.  
Lee attended the University of California, Berkeley, two years before buying 
his own ranch north of Fulton in 1916.
With the family developing a grape and prune operation, it was only natural for 
Lee to become a life-long agricultural businessman.
In 1923, he married Katherine Sheppard, member of another long-time Sonoma 
County family.
Lee, related to the famous Confederate General Robert E. Lee, lived 79 years in 
the county.  He was a life member of Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club - in 
fact, having a mini-putting course in his back yard; a charter member of 
Presbyterian Church of the Roses and a member more than 50 years of Russian 
River Lodge 181, F&AM.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughters, Joan Lee Hamlin, 
Pebble Beach and Marjorie Willey, Sacramento; his brothers Richard A. Lee, 
Fulton and his sister, Rachel Baugh, Walnut Creek; by five grandchildren and 
seven great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Shiloh District  Cemetery, 
Windsor.  Friends may call at Eggen & Lance Mortuary.

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