Verdie Lee, 64, Route 4, Springfield, was dead on arrival at Cox Medical Center at 7:48 a.m. Friday, after suffering an apparent heart attack, according to a funeral home spokesman.

Mr. Lee, a resident of the Elmore community for many years, was a veteran of World War II. He was a self-employed sheet metal worker.

Survivors include his wife, Edna; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Mullen, Route 4, and Mrs. Ann Glidewell, 226 Monterey Court; two brothers, John Lee, Kansas City, and Arch Lee, Springfield; five sisters, Mrs. Opal Pickering, Springfield, Mrs. Ruth Davis, Kansas City, Mrs. Betty Scheinost, Raytown, and Mrs. Dorothy Chronister, Jefferson City, and Mrs. Blance [Blanche] DeGraci, St. Louis; and three grandchildren. 

Greenlawn Funeral Home North will announce arrangements.

Published in the Springfield News Leader, Mar. 1978; Contributed by: Jan Lowry
[Virgil “Verdie”  Lee was born in Jamesville, MO the son of Roland Columbus Lee and Cordelia Ann Fox]