Obituaries:  Lionel C. Lee, Sabine Parish       L-000
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., May 26, 1988
Submitted by: Ruth Estess
              restess42@cs.com


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The Sabine Index

  Lionel C. Lee - May 26, 1988

  Services for Mr. Lionel C. Lee of DeRidder, were held at 10 a.m.
Monday, May 16 at the First United Methodist Church in DeRidder.
Dr. Clyde Averitt and Dr. Emory Wallace, of DeRidder and Dr.
Jolly Harper of Natchitoches, La. officiated. Burial was a
Beauregard Cemetery in DeRidder under the direction of Beauregard
Vernon Funeral of DeRidder.

  Mr. Lee died at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, May 14, 1988 at his
residence at Lakewood Farm in DeRidder. He was a native of
Webster Parish and was a former high school principal in Sabine
Parish before coming to DeRidder in 1934, where he and the late
sheriff, J. H. Cain, established a Ford dealership, later buying
two other agencies in Leesville and Many. Mr. Lee continued to
massage the DeRidder agency for 25 years before entering the real
estate and insurance business. Together with C. R. Middleton, the
partnership developed into Twin Lake Subdivision, later building
Cain-Lee and North Heights Subdivisions, and establishing his
home on the ranch.

  During World War II, Mr. Lee served in the Navy as a Chief Petty
Officer. His many civic interests included the Rotary Club for
over 50 years of which he was twice president, was an American
Legion past commander and honorary life member, on the Beauregard
Parish Fair Board of Directors, and a member of the Masonic
Lodge, the Scottish Rite Bodies and the Habibi Temple of Lake
Charles. He was one of the founders of the Beauregard Cattlemen's
Association and was the secretary for 28 years. On his
retirement, this group honored with a recognition banquet and
"roast'. He was a past president of the Beauregard Farm Bureau
and a member of the State Board of Directors of the bureau. He
was a past president of the Louisiana's Cattlemen's Associating
and Regional Vice-President of the American National Cattlemen's
Association, a past President of the Louisiana Angus Association
and a member of the National Angus Board of Directors; a member
of the L. S. U. Livestock Sanitary Board, a member of Louisiana
Livestock Brand Committee, a member of the Louisiana Forage
Committee and a past president of Beauregard Old River Game and
Fish Commission.

  Mr. Lee was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At
the time of his death, Mr. Lee was a member of the Board of
Directors of American Liberty Financial Corporation and its
subsidiary in Baton Rouge. He was a member of the First United
Methodist Church, a former Sunday school teacher and twice
chairman of its official board. He headed the building committee
that planned and began construction of the educational building.

  He is survived by his wife, the former Helen Cain of DeRidder;
on son, Jimmy Lee and two granddaughters, Melanie Page Lee and
Stacey Amanda Lee, of DeRidder; two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Atkins
of Benton, La. and Mrs. Maurice Aubrey of Shreveport, La.; and a
brother, F. T. Lee of Vivian, La.