1918
Alan
2011
Alan E. Lee
September 2, 1918 — March 7, 2011
Alan Erwin Lee, 92, peacefully passed away Monday, March 7, 2011 at 2:15 p.m. in the Asbury Park Nursing Home, Newton, Kansas, after suffering a stroke.
Alan was born in Kingston, NY on September 2, 1918 to Dr. Ernest K. and Violet Mabel Lee. He was one of three children, with a brother Norman and sister Alberta, and he grew up in nearby Beacon, NY, where his father was a dentist. He graduated from Beacon High School, and attended Tri-State College in Angola Indiana, where he studied engineering, earning a B.S. degree. After graduation in 1940 he worked as an aeronautical engineer for the Culver Aircraft Company, originally in Columbus, Ohio, which re-located to Wichita, KS. In 1942 he went to work at Stearman Aircraft Co., a subsidiary of the Boeing Aircraft Co. He stayed on as a Boeing employee, specializing in wing design, until he retired in 1977. During World War II he worked at Boeing under the auspices of the Air Force and the Defense Department. On December 5, 1941 he married Helen Marie Wiley of Wichita and they had two children, Carole Jeanne and James Alan.
As a young man growing up on the Hudson River, Alan loved to fish and sail. He built sailboats and iceboats, and his interest in boats and ships continued throughout his life. He felt at home with anything mechanical, and spent endless hours maintaining and overhauling cars, lawnmower engines and outboard boat motors. Alan loved the precision engineering of imported automobiles, and he owned a succession of European cars over the years long before most people had ever heard of Saab, MG or BMW.
He was a long-time member of the Wichita East Side Lions Club and College Hill United Methodist Church, Wichita.
Alan Lee is survived by his daughter Carole Jeanne Malin and husband Ralph (Newton, KS) and his son, James Alan Lee and wife Rebecca(Glastonbury, CT), his grandchildren Bryan James Malin and wife June(Tulsa, OK), Brenton John Malin and wife Jessie (Pittsburgh, PA), Jennifer Sohn Lee (Boston, MA), and Kathryn Elizabeth Lee (Glastonbury, CT); and by his great-grandson Mason Beckett Malin (Pittsburgh, PA); and by his sister Alberta E. Feynman (Saratoga Springs, NY), his niece Carrie Rickard (Ridgewood, NJ) and nephew James Feynman (Long Island, NY).
The family would like to express their appreciation to Denise Green and the staff and administration at Asbury Park in Newton and to Carole Schoonover and the staff and administration at Comfort Care Homes in Wichita for the excellent care our parents received. Also a special thanks to Jeanne Sommerfeld of Harry Hynes Hospice for her invaluable assistance with our dad’s passing.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. at Trinity Heights United Methodist Church, 12th and Boyd in Newton. Inurnment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton.
Memorials are encouraged to a charity of your choice and may be sent to Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, 120 E. Broadway, Newton, Ks. 67114.
Alan was born in Kingston, NY on September 2, 1918 to Dr. Ernest K. and Violet Mabel Lee. He was one of three children, with a brother Norman and sister Alberta, and he grew up in nearby Beacon, NY, where his father was a dentist. He graduated from Beacon High School, and attended Tri-State College in Angola Indiana, where he studied engineering, earning a B.S. degree. After graduation in 1940 he worked as an aeronautical engineer for the Culver Aircraft Company, originally in Columbus, Ohio, which re-located to Wichita, KS. In 1942 he went to work at Stearman Aircraft Co., a subsidiary of the Boeing Aircraft Co. He stayed on as a Boeing employee, specializing in wing design, until he retired in 1977. During World War II he worked at Boeing under the auspices of the Air Force and the Defense Department. On December 5, 1941 he married Helen Marie Wiley of Wichita and they had two children, Carole Jeanne and James Alan.
As a young man growing up on the Hudson River, Alan loved to fish and sail. He built sailboats and iceboats, and his interest in boats and ships continued throughout his life. He felt at home with anything mechanical, and spent endless hours maintaining and overhauling cars, lawnmower engines and outboard boat motors. Alan loved the precision engineering of imported automobiles, and he owned a succession of European cars over the years long before most people had ever heard of Saab, MG or BMW.
He was a long-time member of the Wichita East Side Lions Club and College Hill United Methodist Church, Wichita.
Alan Lee is survived by his daughter Carole Jeanne Malin and husband Ralph (Newton, KS) and his son, James Alan Lee and wife Rebecca(Glastonbury, CT), his grandchildren Bryan James Malin and wife June(Tulsa, OK), Brenton John Malin and wife Jessie (Pittsburgh, PA), Jennifer Sohn Lee (Boston, MA), and Kathryn Elizabeth Lee (Glastonbury, CT); and by his great-grandson Mason Beckett Malin (Pittsburgh, PA); and by his sister Alberta E. Feynman (Saratoga Springs, NY), his niece Carrie Rickard (Ridgewood, NJ) and nephew James Feynman (Long Island, NY).
The family would like to express their appreciation to Denise Green and the staff and administration at Asbury Park in Newton and to Carole Schoonover and the staff and administration at Comfort Care Homes in Wichita for the excellent care our parents received. Also a special thanks to Jeanne Sommerfeld of Harry Hynes Hospice for her invaluable assistance with our dad’s passing.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. at Trinity Heights United Methodist Church, 12th and Boyd in Newton. Inurnment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton.
Memorials are encouraged to a charity of your choice and may be sent to Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, 120 E. Broadway, Newton, Ks. 67114.
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