Reply all bunni how we first met3/30/2024 Who could have seen you would become the man you are today? What adventures we had mocking the hard guys and infuriating your mother. No, I mean what I was a couple of days ago. Jimmy, Jimmy: As you say, you made me what I am today. Middling wrestler but got to watch the Hopkins state champions from close up. All Conference football but never touched a ball. We moved to New York, Maine, then Minnetonka by third grade. I was born in Racine, Wisconsin to a raft of cousins. I was the middle child between Charles Francis Lee now of Roseburg Oregon (Susan Tanabe) and Patricia Marcroft now of Blaine (Robert). Father Charlie, always calm and unjudgmental, never an unkind word or deed. Swinging a golf club on the course or at the hard guys who had chased me and Jimmy up a tree. Father Charles Benjamin Lee from Seattle. Mother Ruth Nielsen Lee from Racine, Wisconsin. Did they flee the homeland or come for opportunity? Immigrants making America the beacon of opportunity and freedom in the world. Thomas and Julia, Tjerk and Fenna and Auktje, Mads and Marie, Johannes and Dagmar. I'm a lucky descendant of Irish, Dutch and Danish forbears braving the sea. Who, besides Debbie, knows me better than myself? Code-named "Derailment." So lucky to have met and loved you. I met Debbie on the Friday before Thanksgiving Novemat the old Blues Saloon in St. Son Benjamin Lee (Vashon Island Washington, Jennifer Salisbury) born 1982. Son Matthew Lee (Apple Valley, Carly Eichhorst) born 1979. Wife Deborah Gramling (Circle Pines, Richfield, Edina). I die after a full life with a grateful heart.
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