Condolences to the family of Kenneth Lee

Marilyn Kay (Mau) Lee, wife of GHAEA board member Kenneth Lee, passed away on April 11 at the age of 71. She graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in home economics education. While there, Marilyn met and married Ronald Kenneth Lee. 
     For seven years, Marilyn taught home economics before becoming a stay-at-home mom. She worked various part-time jobs before she focused on a nursing career. In 1991, she graduated from Iowa Western Community College with an LPN degree, and in 1993, she received her RN degree from Southwestern Community College. Marilyn loved taking care of people during her 20-year career at the Shenandoah Memorial Hospital.
     Survivors include her husband of more than 49 years, Ken; three sons and five grandsons, Chad Lee and wife Shannon and their sons, Parker, Preston, Pierson and Patrick of West Des Moines, IA, Mark Lee and wife Amanda of West Des Moines, IA and Brian Lee and wife Erin and their son, Andrew of Ankeny, IA. Marilyn was anxiously awaiting the birth of her first granddaughter, Evelyn, in June. Also surviving are a brother, William Mau and wife DoRene of Palo, IA; brother-in-law, Leonard Lee and wife Kathryn of Silver Lake, KS; sister-in-law, Sharon Laughlin of Marion, IA; nieces and nephews; other relatives and many friends.

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