DOROTHY
GRACE LEES
On
Wednesday, January 28, 2015, Dorothy Lees, age 95, passed
away peacefully at the Simkin Centre.
Left
to cherish Dorothy’s memory are her three children,
Georgia Klass (Daniel), Virginia Lees (Ron Kibbins)
and J.D. Lees (Ruth); nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
She was predeceased in 2010 by her husband of 60 years, Danny Lees.
Dorothy grew up in St. James on
Oakdale Place. She attended Wesley College, now University of Winnipeg, where
she earned her BA. She worked in the Budget Office
at Eatons until her marriage to Donald Maclean in
1943. Captain Maclean, a paratrooper, was killed on D-Day in France.
Within a short time after his death, both Dorothy’s parents had also
passed away.
In 1950, Dorothy married
Danny Lees on the day he graduated from Medical School. She was a
devoted and loving wife and mother who, together with Danny,
provided their children with a happy, stable, and
carefree home environment. She was self-disciplined and organized,
and modeled doing what was "right" rather than what was
"easy." She was a highly intelligent woman with
an amazing memory, able to help her kids with algebra and
geometry problems right up to the end of their high
school.
Summers were spent tending to her family
at their cottage at Victoria Beach. Dorothy traveled twice a year to
visit her best friend and sister-in-law Margie Ross (Maclean) at Great Hopes Farm in
Michigan, or at The Anchorage in Coral Gables, Florida.
Dorothy loved animals, and the Lees home
was never without a dog and at least one cat. She loved her home on Riverside
Drive where she enjoyed feeding and watching the wild animals, and she spent
many happy times with Danny at "the farm" in Prawda, where
she gathered wild berries and baked them into scrumptious pies.
Dorothy's motto was, "Chase out
the bad thought and put in the good thought." She truly lived
by her motto, even during the last seven years of Dan's life, when he
was afflicted with Alzheimer's and Dorothy supplied him with love and care
every single day.
At Dorothy's request, there will be no funeral
service.
The family is grateful to the
wonderful people at the Simkin Centre that have cared for
Mum with such kindness for the last three years of her life.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a
donation to: the Simkin Centre, 1 Falconridge Drive, Winnipeg, R3Y1B9 or the
East Beaches Animal Shelter, P.O. BOX 51, Victoria Beach, MB,
R0E 2C0.
Wojcik’s
Funeral Chapels & Crematorium, 2157 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada 204.897.4665, is in care of arrangements. wojciksfuneralchapel.com
Wojcik’s
FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM
2157 PORTAGE AVENUE
204 - 897 - 4665
www.wojciksfuneralchapel.com
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