Extracted from The Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville,NC)
Sunday, January 14, 2001

Benson E. Lee Jr.

Retired Army Staff Sgt. Benson E. Lee Jr., 69, of 115 Blanton Road, Fayetteville, died Friday in his home.

Mr. Lee was a veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Jernigan-Warren Funeral Home chapel. Burial with military honors will be in Main Post Cemetery on Fort Bragg.

Mr. Lee is survived by three sons, William E. Lee of Prescott, Ariz., Benson E. Lee III and Steve T. Lee, both of Spring Lake; two daughters, Barbara L. Meyer of Peoria, Ariz., and Nancy J. Lee of Clinton; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 9 at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Cumberland County, 235 North McPherson Church Road, Suite 210, Fayetteville, NC 28303; or to the Lee family, 115 Blanton Road, Fayetteville, NC 28303.