Cole Edward Lee was the second child of John Edward Lee and Nancy Jane Hollis Lee. He was born March 6, 1932 in Helmic, Texas. Cole signed up with the Air Force when he was sixteen and was inducted on his seventeenth birthday in 1949. He spent 22 years in the service, serving during the Korean Conflict and spending a year in Vietnam during the war. He married Pauline Wixon in Merced, California on September 1, 1965, they met while Cole was stationed in England. He retired from the Air Force in 1971 as a Master Sergeant. He then returned to Texas and began his career as a Supervisor with the Texas State Department of Health, where he was still employed at the time of his death. He was an avid hunter and a long time member of the Deep East Texas Coonhunters Association. Cole was an expert marksman, an excellent bowler and a great dancer. He enjoyed vegetable gardening and canning and was a great cook. He was an extremely dedicated and responsible person, who took a lot of pride in his job and everything else he did. He was a good and loving husband and father. And like his mother, Cricket, he shared his love of family lore and genealogy with his children. He died of a massive heart attack on August 12, 1989 while on a coon hunt. He was survived by his wife and three children, as well as his parents.
Cole Edward Lee was the second child of John Edward Lee and Nancy Jane Hollis Lee. He was born March 6, 1932 in Helmic, Texas. Cole signed up with the Air Force when he was sixteen and was inducted on his seventeenth birthday in 1949. He spent 22 years in the service, serving during the Korean Conflict and spending a year in Vietnam during the war. He married Pauline Wixon in Merced, California on September 1, 1965, they met while Cole was stationed in England. He retired from the Air Force in 1971 as a Master Sergeant. He then returned to Texas and began his career as a Supervisor with the Texas State Department of Health, where he was still employed at the time of his death. He was an avid hunter and a long time member of the Deep East Texas Coonhunters Association. Cole was an expert marksman, an excellent bowler and a great dancer. He enjoyed vegetable gardening and canning and was a great cook. He was an extremely dedicated and responsible person, who took a lot of pride in his job and everything else he did. He was a good and loving husband and father. And like his mother, Cricket, he shared his love of family lore and genealogy with his children. He died of a massive heart attack on August 12, 1989 while on a coon hunt. He was survived by his wife and three children, as well as his parents.
Inscription
On the front of the monument:
Beloved Husband, Father, Son and Brother
John 3:16
On the back of the monument:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Gravesite Details
Cole's USAF military burial marker has been used as his footstone.
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