LEE, Dick R. - L-Obituaries

Mecca—Dick R. Lee, 42, Mecca, drowned in a fishing accident at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 25, 1989.

  According to the Vermillion County Sheriff’s department, he and a fishing companion, Marion Stonebraker of Mecca, were fishing in a discharge ditch at the Public Service Indiana power plant near Cayuga.

  The spokesman said the water discharged from the plant is swift flowing. The boat the men were fishing in got caught in the current and then overturned. Stonebraker was able to swim out of the swift current, but Lee was not.

  He was born Nov. 19, 1946 at Mecca, the son of Amos and Esther Myers Lee. He was a member of the Mecca Volunteer Fire Department and worked in maintenance for Lee Allen Bryant Nursing Home.

  Surviving are his wife, Esther Fellows Lee; five daughters, Jody, Clinton, and Michelle, Crystal, Cristina and Tonya, all at home; three brothers, John Myers, Joliet, Ill.; Jim Lee, Boston, Mass., and Norval Lee, Indianapolis; 10 sisters, Dorothy Ellis, Mary Greenlee and Shirley Criss, all of Indianapolis; Judy Hoke, Rockville; Betty Collier, Attica; Linda Lee and Susan Lee, Mecca; Doris Lee, Crawfordsville; Donna Russell, Chicago, and Pam Hutchens, Mecca, and two grandchildren.

  Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Sunday in Barnes Mortuary, Rockville, with the Rev. Kenneth Kelley officiating. Burial was in Hixon Cemetery. – thanks to S