In Memory of Our Father
Loyce Carroll Lee passed away quietly at his home in Dale City, Virginia at the age of 83, after a long fight with cancer.
Known to his family and friends as "Lee".
Loyce Carroll Lee was the first of four children born to Morris Westbrook Lee, and Mertie Lee Cox in the farming community of Red Hill, Texas.
He and his younger brother Jack endured a hard-scrabble childhood growing up during the Great Depression, and World War II, surrounded by cotton plantations and melon farms; working in the fields and tending to the day-to-day chores.
Loyce, along with his brother, cousins Freddie Neal Cox, Jamie Cox and friend Carl Echols, Jr.; walked several miles to the one room schoolhouse at the crossroads in Red Hill where they went to grade school.
In 1944, the Lee family relocated for a brief period to Electra, Wichita County through 1946 picking vegetables and chopping cotton.
The Lee's returned to their family farm in Cass County, and Loyce attended Linden High School, and graduated on 29 May 1951.
Following his graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on 03 October 1951. After completing basic training, he transferred to Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming to attend communications school from December 1951 through February 1952. Following, he was attached to the 1954th AACS (Airways and Air Communications Service), Communications Squadron 994, Denver, Colorado.
On 25 April 1953 he sailed aboard the USNS General E.T. Collins (T-AP-147) to Tokyo, Japan.
He spent one year there, and lived off base, returning stateside aboard the USNS General Hugh J. Gaffey (T-AP-121). From May 1954 until his discharge, he was stationed at Andrews AFB, Camp Springs, Maryland, and Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia. Loyce Lee was honorably discharged on 02 October 1955 with the rank of Airman First Class.
While stationed in the Washington, D.C. area, Loyce met his future wife; Dorothy Marie Fulmer of Yukon, Pennsylvania.
They became engaged, and married on 19 November 1955 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Loyce began his civilian career that same year as a teletype operator with International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) at 17th & L Street, NW..
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Revisions and additions pending
Loyce Carroll Lee passed away quietly at his home in Dale City, Virginia at the age of 83, after a long fight with cancer.
Known to his family and friends as "Lee".
Loyce Carroll Lee was the first of four children born to Morris Westbrook Lee, and Mertie Lee Cox in the farming community of Red Hill, Texas.
He and his younger brother Jack endured a hard-scrabble childhood growing up during the Great Depression, and World War II, surrounded by cotton plantations and melon farms; working in the fields and tending to the day-to-day chores.
Loyce, along with his brother, cousins Freddie Neal Cox, Jamie Cox and friend Carl Echols, Jr.; walked several miles to the one room schoolhouse at the crossroads in Red Hill where they went to grade school.
In 1944, the Lee family relocated for a brief period to Electra, Wichita County through 1946 picking vegetables and chopping cotton.
The Lee's returned to their family farm in Cass County, and Loyce attended Linden High School, and graduated on 29 May 1951.
Following his graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on 03 October 1951. After completing basic training, he transferred to Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming to attend communications school from December 1951 through February 1952. Following, he was attached to the 1954th AACS (Airways and Air Communications Service), Communications Squadron 994, Denver, Colorado.
On 25 April 1953 he sailed aboard the USNS General E.T. Collins (T-AP-147) to Tokyo, Japan.
He spent one year there, and lived off base, returning stateside aboard the USNS General Hugh J. Gaffey (T-AP-121). From May 1954 until his discharge, he was stationed at Andrews AFB, Camp Springs, Maryland, and Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia. Loyce Lee was honorably discharged on 02 October 1955 with the rank of Airman First Class.
While stationed in the Washington, D.C. area, Loyce met his future wife; Dorothy Marie Fulmer of Yukon, Pennsylvania.
They became engaged, and married on 19 November 1955 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Loyce began his civilian career that same year as a teletype operator with International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) at 17th & L Street, NW..
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Revisions and additions pending
In Memory of Our Father
Loyce Carroll Lee passed away quietly at his home in Dale City, Virginia at the age of 83, after a long fight with cancer.
Known to his family and friends as "Lee".
Loyce Carroll Lee was the first of four children born to Morris Westbrook Lee, and Mertie Lee Cox in the farming community of Red Hill, Texas.
He and his younger brother Jack endured a hard-scrabble childhood growing up during the Great Depression, and World War II, surrounded by cotton plantations and melon farms; working in the fields and tending to the day-to-day chores.
Loyce, along with his brother, cousins Freddie Neal Cox, Jamie Cox and friend Carl Echols, Jr.; walked several miles to the one room schoolhouse at the crossroads in Red Hill where they went to grade school.
In 1944, the Lee family relocated for a brief period to Electra, Wichita County through 1946 picking vegetables and chopping cotton.
The Lee's returned to their family farm in Cass County, and Loyce attended Linden High School, and graduated on 29 May 1951.
Following his graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on 03 October 1951. After completing basic training, he transferred to Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming to attend communications school from December 1951 through February 1952. Following, he was attached to the 1954th AACS (Airways and Air Communications Service), Communications Squadron 994, Denver, Colorado.
On 25 April 1953 he sailed aboard the USNS General E.T. Collins (T-AP-147) to Tokyo, Japan.
He spent one year there, and lived off base, returning stateside aboard the USNS General Hugh J. Gaffey (T-AP-121). From May 1954 until his discharge, he was stationed at Andrews AFB, Camp Springs, Maryland, and Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia. Loyce Lee was honorably discharged on 02 October 1955 with the rank of Airman First Class.
While stationed in the Washington, D.C. area, Loyce met his future wife; Dorothy Marie Fulmer of Yukon, Pennsylvania.
They became engaged, and married on 19 November 1955 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Loyce began his civilian career that same year as a teletype operator with International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) at 17th & L Street, NW..
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Revisions and additions pending
Loyce Carroll Lee passed away quietly at his home in Dale City, Virginia at the age of 83, after a long fight with cancer.
Known to his family and friends as "Lee".
Loyce Carroll Lee was the first of four children born to Morris Westbrook Lee, and Mertie Lee Cox in the farming community of Red Hill, Texas.
He and his younger brother Jack endured a hard-scrabble childhood growing up during the Great Depression, and World War II, surrounded by cotton plantations and melon farms; working in the fields and tending to the day-to-day chores.
Loyce, along with his brother, cousins Freddie Neal Cox, Jamie Cox and friend Carl Echols, Jr.; walked several miles to the one room schoolhouse at the crossroads in Red Hill where they went to grade school.
In 1944, the Lee family relocated for a brief period to Electra, Wichita County through 1946 picking vegetables and chopping cotton.
The Lee's returned to their family farm in Cass County, and Loyce attended Linden High School, and graduated on 29 May 1951.
Following his graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on 03 October 1951. After completing basic training, he transferred to Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming to attend communications school from December 1951 through February 1952. Following, he was attached to the 1954th AACS (Airways and Air Communications Service), Communications Squadron 994, Denver, Colorado.
On 25 April 1953 he sailed aboard the USNS General E.T. Collins (T-AP-147) to Tokyo, Japan.
He spent one year there, and lived off base, returning stateside aboard the USNS General Hugh J. Gaffey (T-AP-121). From May 1954 until his discharge, he was stationed at Andrews AFB, Camp Springs, Maryland, and Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia. Loyce Lee was honorably discharged on 02 October 1955 with the rank of Airman First Class.
While stationed in the Washington, D.C. area, Loyce met his future wife; Dorothy Marie Fulmer of Yukon, Pennsylvania.
They became engaged, and married on 19 November 1955 at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart Cathedral.
Loyce began his civilian career that same year as a teletype operator with International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) at 17th & L Street, NW..
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Revisions and additions pending
