Obit: Lee, Dr. Ell Louis (1903 - 1960)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Lee, Gile, Wedekind, Harcey, Beilfuss, Schoengarth, Haight, Parry, Snyder  

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 6, 1960

Lee, Dr. Ell Louis (3 November 1903 - 5 October 1960)

Funeral services for Dr. Ell L. Lee, 56, widely-known Neillsville dentist who died Wednesday morning, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the United Church of Christ in Neillsville. The Rev. Frank B. Harcey will be in charge, and burial will be made in the Neillsville City Cemetery.

Pallbearers will include: Judge Bruce F. Beilfuss, Judge Lowell D. Schoengarth, Hugh G. Haight, David Parry and E. H. Snyder.

Dr. Lee died at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning as the result of a heart attack.  He had entered the hospital Tuesday afternoon.  He had been in poor health for the last several years.

He had practiced dentistry in Neillsville since 1926, coming here after a few months’ practice in Arpin.

Born near Granton on November 3, 1903, Ell Louis Lee was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Price Lee.  He received his early education in the Granton schools, and studied at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and was graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., in 1925.

He was a member of the American and Wisconsin Dental associations and a member of the Elks.

He was married to Leona Wedekind on December 31, 1959.

Surviving besides Mrs. Lee is a son, Ell L. (Skipper) Lee, Jr., who is a dental student at Marquette University.  Dr. Lee’s first wife, Mary Charlotte Gile, whom he married November 11, 1930, in Howard, Ill., died January 25, 1956.