Frances Beatrice Lee

Frances Beatrice Lee, 95, of Oak Ridge passed away Wednesday, March 6, at Emeritus of Oak Ridge.

She was born Jan. 19, 1918, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to the late Frank and Myrtle Crippen Vandergrif.

She was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church of Oak Ridge and a retired seamstress from Levi Strauss. She dearly loved her children and grandchildren.

She married her husband Howard F. Lee on March 11, 1946, in Bacon County, Ga. They were married 60 years at the time of his death on Dec. 30, 2006.

Besides her parents and her husband, she was preceded in death by her daughter Virginia Mimbs, son David Rader, brother Roy Vandergriff, and sisters Mildred Grant and Bertha Wolfred.

She is survived by her daughter Barbara Hamlett and her husband Allen of Powell; sisters Pat Stigell and Louise Collins; brothers Don Vandergriff and Ray Vandergriff; daughter-in-law Dorothy Rader; grandchildren Kathy Parton, Barbara Ann Hamlett, Jody Battaglia, and Kim Norris; and six great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends Saturday, March 9, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the chapel of Oak Ridge Memorial Park followed by interment in Oak Ridge Memorial Park.