Dorthy Othella Lee

Funeral service for Dorthy Othella Lee was 2:00 p.m. Friday, August 30, 2024 at Sullivan Village Church of Christ with Eric Sharum and Steven Hill officiating.
Burial followed in Highland Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.
Dorthy Othella Lee, 91, of Lawton, Oklahoma passed away Monday, August 26, 2024 in Lawton. Dorthy was born March 15, 1933 east of Lawton to Lewis Raymond and Edith Othella (Perry) Howell. She was one of five children.  She attended grade school at Beaver Bend District #37 first through eighth grade where she participated in track.  She then attended Lawton Junior High School and graduated from Lawton High School and was active in LHS chorus. Her goal was to be a fashion designer.  It was at Lawton High that she met the love of her life, Cecil Ray Lee.  They married on November 24,1950 while she was a senior, and later graduated in May 1951. They farmed southeast of Lawton, leasing two farms.  In 1954 Cecil was drafted in the U.S. Army and they spent most of those two years in Fort Carson, Colorado. She worked part time in the alteration department in the largest department store and then they returned home and moved on to the farm where Dorthy was raised and their other three children were born.  In 1963, the house burned. They then built a house southeast of Lawton and lived there for fifty-six years. Cecil passed away in 2009 and Dorthy lived there until July 2019. She then moved to Ten Oaks Senior Living until she had to move to McMahon-Tomlinson Nursing Center. She was involved in many organizations early on, The Book and Play Review Club, Knife and Fork Club (she and her husband), League of Women Voters, Business and Professional Women’s Club, where she served as chairman of the Foundation Committee, and modeled in their style show. She worked for Lawton Public Schools for twenty-seven years, twenty-two of those as Federal Programs bookkeeper in the Shoemaker Center under Superintendent Dr. John Elkins.  Dorthy and Cecil were charter members of Sullivan Village Church of Christ, teaching Bible classes. She belonged to National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Descendent of the Mayflower Society, New England Women, Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century, Daughters of the War of 1812, National Society Colonial Dames of America, Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Comanche County and Oklahoma Retired Educators Associations.
Survivors include four children, Lynn and Jeanie of Chickasha, Timmy and Susan of Lawton, Deborah and John of Lubbock, Texas and James and Teri of Lawton, sister, Joy Kingsley, Sedgwick, Kansas, brother-in-law, Loy Lee, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, fifteen grandchildren, thirty-two great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Lee, her parents, Lewis and Edith Howell, her brothers, Ray Howell and his wife, Nanette and Lewis Young (Buddy) Howell and his wife, Maxine, her sisters, Lolas Bowden and her husband, Ellis, sister-in-law, Judy Lee, brother-in-law, Robert Kingsley and great granddaughter, Eden Ellis.
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