Cleo Mary Rush Lee was born January 29, 1911 to Nelson John and Jessie Fail Rusch in McPherson County, Kansas near Langley, Kansas. When she was ten years old, she with her father and two brothers moved to Oklahoma to a farm near Ringwood, Oklahoma. She attended Riverside Country School and Ringwood High School where she graduated as Valedictorian of the Class of 1930. On May 25, 1939 she married Chester B. Lee in Enid, Oklahoma. 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 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Cleo was a homemaker and a seamstress and 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. Graveside services were held on March 4, 2002 at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Meno, Oklahoma. As printed in "The OKEENE RECORD", Thursday, March 7, 2002, Okeene, Blaine County, Oklahoma.