Avis de décès de Alice Lee - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

<!-- DisplayFullObituaryText -->LEE, ALICEAlice Finch Lee, attorney, of Monroeville, Alabama, died early in the morning of November 17, 2014, at the Monroe County Hospital in Monroeville. Miss Lee was born on September 11, 1911, the first of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. She graduated from Monroe County High School in 1928, at the age of 16. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama, in the academic year 1928-29. After her father purchased The Monroe Journal and at the outset of the Great Depression, she returned to Monroeville and worked at that newspaper for seven years. In April, 1937, she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in Birmingham in the newly created Social Security Division. From 1939 to 1943 she attended night school at the Birmingham School of Law, and in July, 1943, she took and passed the Bar Exam, becoming one of Alabama's first women lawyers. In January, 1944, she returned to Monroeville and became a partner in her father's law firm, Barnett, Bugg, and Lee. She practiced law in this firm until the age of 100, when declining health forced her to take leave from her practice, then at Barnett, Bugg, Lee, and Carter. By virtue of her government service and the needs of her clients, she developed over the decades particular expertise in tax law, and has served thousands of clients in that capacity. By 2011, when she was 100, she was said to be the oldest practicing woman lawyer in the United States. Miss Lee's activity extended far beyond her practice of law, however. For her entire life she has served her Lord and her United Methodist Church in selfless devotion. Her church activities at the local, regional, and national levels are too many to list here, but here are some: She was the first elected lay delegate to the General and Jurisdictional Conferences of 1976 and 1980. She was the first woman to lead the entire delegation in 1976. For many years each she served on the Conference Board of Pensions and Homes for Claimants, the Conference Board of Missions, the Tri-Conference Committee on Merger. She was the first woman to chair the Alabama-West Florida Council on Ministries and was the first woman to chair the Board of Directors of the United Methodist Children's home, in which capacity she served for three years. She chaired the Andalusia District Committee on the Superintendancy and served on the General Conference Committee on the Episcopacy. She was a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama-West Florida United Methodist Foundation. She served on the Southeastern Jurisdiction Council on Ministries for eight years, a member of its Executive Committee for four years. She chaired the Southeastern Jurisdiction Commission on Communications for four years and served as a member of the Protestant Hour Committee for eight years. She was a member and secretary of the Jurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy for eight years. She was a member, treasurer, and member of the Executive Committee of the General Council on Ministries for eight years. She was legal counsel to her own church after assuming her legal practice, and she assisted churches throughout Monroe County with their legal needs. In her local Monroeville United Methodist Church, she taught adult Sunday School classes for over sixty years, and she was the first woman to chair its Administrative Board. For about sixty years she was one of her church's delegates to sessions of the Alabama-West Florida Conference. Her life-long love of ministry and ministers led her to decades of service on the Staff-Parish Relations Committee and have earned her the love and admiration of many of the clergy in her church.In service to her community, Miss Lee served for decades on the Monroeville City Planning Commission and was the first woman to do so. She has been named Monroeville's Woman of the Year and was the Kiwanis Club's first Citizen of the year. She served as a director of the Monroe County Bank for well over thirty years. When the Monroe County Hospital opened in 1962, she became a "Pink Lady" and was one of the first group of volunteers to reach 500 service hours by helping the hospital in the evening.Among her many honors these are a few: KA Rose for the state of Alabama, In 1984, Huntingdon College awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 1987, the Monroeville Kiwanis Club decided to name her as Citizen of the Year (their first award of this kind) in lieu of their usual Kiwanian of the Year because women were not yet accepted as members of the Kiwanis Club. In 1992, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church established the Alice Lee Award for women who have given outstanding leadership in the United Methodist Church. She was the 2003 recipient of the Maud McClure Kelly Award by the Alabama Bar Association. She was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor in 2012.Miss Lee leaves behind a loving family deeply grateful for her presence among us for so many years. Her most immediate family members include her sister, Nelle Harper Lee; her nephews, Herschel Henry Conner, Edwin Lee Conner, the sons of sister Louise Lee Conner; her sister-in-law, Sara Ann and her husband, John Curry; her nieces and nephew, Mary McCall Lee, Dr. Edwin Coleman Lee (Marianne), Stella Curry Ivie (Russell), Martha Curry Reese; great-nieces and nephews, Elizabeth Ivie, Emily Ivie Howell (Ed), Jim Ivie (Andrea), Mary Alice Mosley (Rob), Anna Lee Gresham (Cole), Sara Howell Lee, John Reese; Laura Conner Byres, Jeremy Amasa Conner; a very loved distant cousin, Jackie Stovall of Mississippi; great-great nieces and nephews, Jack Mosley, Alice Mosley, Ellen Gresham, Cole Gresham, William Gresham, many extended family members. Tonja Carter is the last remaining active partner in the firm of Barnett, Bugg, Lee and Carter. Funeral services will be held Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 2:00pm at First United Methodist Church, in Monroeville, AL. Interment followed at the Pineville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, Miss Alice has asked that donations be made to the following: Alabama Archives, Montgomery, Alabama; United Methodist Children's home; Heifer International; Monroeville United Methodist Church. Johnson Funeral Home of Monroeville is in charge of all arrangements. Visit our online registry at www.johnsonfh.org