Cleo Mary Rush Lee
19 Dec 1903 - 17 Dec 2003
Submitted by Jo Aguirre

Graveside services for Cleo Mary Rush Lee were held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, March4th at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Meno, Oklahoma under the direction of Guardian North Funeral Home of Oklahoma City.

Cleo Mary Rush Lee was born January 29, 1911 to Nelson John and Jessie Fail Rush in McPherson County Kansas near Langley, KS. She passed away in Oklahoma City on March 1, 2002.

When she was ten years old, she with her father and two brothers moved to Oklahoma to a farm near Ringwood, OK. She attended Riverside Co. School and Ringwood H.S. where she graduated as Valedictorian of the Class of 1930.

On May 25, 1939 she married Chester B. Lee in Enid, OK. They made their home in Okeene from 1939 to 1982. They moved to Enid where she resided till July 2000, and then moved to Quail Ridge Senior Living in OKC. Cleo was a homemaker and a seamstress and a member of Willow View United Methodist Church in Enid.

She was preceded in death by her husband, in 1982; her parents, sister, brother and grandson.

She leaves three children, James Nelson Lee, Shirley Ann Pugh and husband, Ed; John Ellis Lee and wife, Judy; one grandchild, three great-grandsons and one brother, Ellis Rush of Fairview and two half sisters and one half brother.

The family wishes to thank the Staff of Quail Ridge Sr. Living and the TC Unit at Mercy Hospital for their support and special care.

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