Lenoir County NcArchives Obituaries.....Lee, Thomas Leslie October 9, 1949
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Kinston Free Press
DR. T. LESLIE LEE DIES OF HEART ATTACK SUNDAY:  Prominent Surgeon and 
Obstetrician Passes at 10:30 P. M. at His Home; Funeral Rites at Church 11 
Tuesday - Dr. Thomas Leslie Lee, 48, prominent obstetrician and gynecologist 
of the staff of Memorial General Hospital here, succumbed to a heart attack at 
his home at College Street and Roundtree Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Sunday.  He 
had not been ill, but had returned a few hours earlier from a weekend trip to 
Morehead City.  The funeral will be from the First Presbyterian Church at 11 
a.m. Tuesday, with interment in Westview Cemetery.  His pastor, Rev. Thomas H. 
Hamilton, will officiate.  Elders in the church will be active pallbearers.

Dr. Lee was a native of Kinston, a son of Mrs. Dora Bland Lee and the late T. 
R. Lee.  He was educated in local schools and at Washington and Lee 
University.  He took his medical work at the Medical College of Virginia.  He 
had been associated with the local hospital since completion of his internship.

Dr. Lee took his intern work at Sheltering Arms Hospital in Richmond, Va., and 
began his practice in the Kinston Clinic here in July of 1926.  He was a 
fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a diplomat of the American Board 
of Gynecology and Obstetrics.  He would have completed a six-year term on the 
State Board of Medical Examiners next May.  He was a member of the North 
Carolina Obstetrical and Gynecology Society.

He was pioneer in the field of cancer work.  He was chairman of the executive 
committee of the N. C. Division of American Cancer Society.  He served as 
chairman of the Cancer Committee of the State Medical Society, and was active 
in several statewide campaigns for that society.  He was a prime mover in the 
founding of the Area Cancer Clinic in Kinston and served for a time as 
chairman of the Lenoir County Cancer Society.

In addition to serving as president of the Lenoir Medical Society, Dr. Lee was 
president of the Seaboard Medical Society and active in both district and 
State societies for many years.  He supported every worthwhile cause for the 
advancement of medicine in the county and State and was interested in civic 
and community affairs as well.  Dr. Lee was active as an elder in the First 
Presbyterian Church, was a director of the Commercial National Bank here, was 
a member of the Elks, the Kiwanis Club and other organizations.

Surviving are his mother, his widow, Mrs. Bertha Thomas Lee; two children, 
Patricia and Thomas L. Lee, Jr., of the home; one sister, Mrs. Ina Mae Lee of 
Kinston, and a niece, Mrs. Albert W. Cowper of Kinston.  his father die in 
1927.


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