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a member of the Sumter Assembly, the Sumter Cotillion and the Roadrunners Traveling Club A former member of the Sumter Junior Welfare League.
Date Published: August 4, 2005
BETTY B. LEE
Betty Burgess Lee, 83, widow of John Dozier Lee Jr., died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005 at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.
Born in Sumter, she was a daughter of the late Robert A. Burgess Sr. and Eunice McFaddin Burgess.
Mrs. Lee was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter, the Sumter Assembly, the Sumter Cotillion and the Roadrunners Traveling Club. She was a former member of the Sumter Junior Welfare League.
Surviving are a son, John Dozier Lee III of Sumter; two daughters, Mary Dozier Ellsworth and husband, John, of Lexington and Betsy Lee Satory and husband, Jim, of Alpharetta, Ga.; three grandchildren, Ryan M. Ellsworth, Lindsay R. Ellsworth and Richard D. Lee.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Robert A. Burgess Jr. and Joseph A. Burgess.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Sumter Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. John Barr officiating.
Pallbearers will be Ryan M. Ellsworth, Richard D. Lee, Dr. Charles H. White Jr., Gene K. Weston, Jack Erter and Charles Alessandro.
The family will receive friends at the home, 224 Mason Croft Drive.
Memorials may be made to the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter, P.O. Box 338, Sumter, SC 29151, to the Jeanne C. Watson Oncology Endowment in care of the Tuomey Foundation, 115 N. Sumter Street, Suite 120, Sumter, SC 29150 or to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), 3608 Landmark Drive, Suite C, Columbia, SC 29204.
On-line condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com.
Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad Street, Sumter is in charge of the arrangements. [2] |
1922 - 2005 (83 years)
