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Dorothy June Lee

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Dorothy June Lee

Birth
Hawkeye, Fayette County, Iowa, USA
Death
11 Jun 2015 (aged 92)
Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Hawkeye, Fayette County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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She was born to Otho J and Adda Peterson Lee, she graduated from Christian College in Columbia MO and majored in vocational home economics at Missouri University.
She went to Civil Aeronoitcs Administration School in 1950S She worked at Rapid City Regional Airport in the 1950, retiring as an Area Supervisor a the Rapid City Flight Service Station.
in 1985. She was an Air Traffic controller in several states.
My father knew her and spoke of her often she was a pilot and had her own plane.
She flew in the 1959 Transcontinental Powder Puff Derby. And help establish 99 chapters of the International Women's Pilot Galvanization in three states.
She was a member of the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame
She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister Cora Morf and her good friend Lois Saxton.

The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 16, at Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home with the Rev. Jacqui Hatzell officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Hawkeye Cemetery, in Hawkeye, Iowa. A memorial has been established.



She was born to Otho J and Adda Peterson Lee, she graduated from Christian College in Columbia MO and majored in vocational home economics at Missouri University.
She went to Civil Aeronoitcs Administration School in 1950S She worked at Rapid City Regional Airport in the 1950, retiring as an Area Supervisor a the Rapid City Flight Service Station.
in 1985. She was an Air Traffic controller in several states.
My father knew her and spoke of her often she was a pilot and had her own plane.
She flew in the 1959 Transcontinental Powder Puff Derby. And help establish 99 chapters of the International Women's Pilot Galvanization in three states.
She was a member of the South Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame
She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister Cora Morf and her good friend Lois Saxton.

The funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 16, at Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home with the Rev. Jacqui Hatzell officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Hawkeye Cemetery, in Hawkeye, Iowa. A memorial has been established.





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