Duane M. Lee, Neutral

COLUMBUS ? Services for Duane M. Lee, 65, Neutral, will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Murdock Funeral Home, Columbus. Burial will be in Lone Elm Cemetery northeast of Columbus.

Mr. Lee died Monday, March 7, 2005, at St. John’s Medical Center in Joplin, Mo.

He was born Jan. 7, 1940, in Strasburg, Colo., the son of Elza and Pearl Angel Lee. He moved to Kansas in 1942 and lived in Baxter Springs. He later moved to Neutral.

Mr. Lee worked for Cherokee County as a brush cutter until he retired in 2003. He sold peach-seed carvings after he retired. He had been a member of Neutral Methodist Church since 1986.

He married Ellen Lauck on Oct. 16, 1961, in Baxter Springs. She survives, of the home.

Other survivors include a daughter, Melinda Tillman, Baxter Springs; a son, Don, Carterville, Mo.; four sisters, Wanda MacDermott, El Dorado, Calif., Genevieve Guy, Eudora, Retha Johnson, Overland Park, and Naomi Sutherland, Decklo, Idaho; and seven grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorials to the American Diabetes Assn., sent in care of the funeral home, 132 East Pine, Columbus 66725.