- Date Of Birth: January 17, 1922
- Date Of Death: December 12, 2021
- State: Idaho
Irene Nell Lee, 99, of Nampa, passed away peacefully at home December 12, 2021. Irene was born January 17, 1922, in a little log cabin by the Missouri River near Pollock, South Dakota. The eldest of five children, her family lived in South Dakota including a Sioux Indian Reservation, Yates, Chamberlin, and the Black Hills. At age13 her family moved to Wilsall, Montana, and then to Billings where Irene completed High School in 1941. Irene attended Miltonvale Kansas College for one year before returning to Billings where she met and married the love of her life, William “Bill” H. Lee, on November 29, 1946. They soon moved to Sidney, Montana, where Bill began his lifelong career with the Mountain Bell Telephone Company, and where all three of their children were born.
In 2018, shortly after her 96th birthday, Irene moved to Nampa, Idaho, to live with her daughter, Ali.
Survivors include her daughter, Alice Tiegs; her son, David Lee and his wife Theresa, Highlands Ranch, CO.; six grandchildren, Patrick Robbins, Rhonda Tonole, Hollie Benton, Tammie Collom, Krista Goranson, and Derek Lee; twelve great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Irene was preceded in death by her husband, William Lee; daughter, Betty Robbins; her parents, Esther Casey and John Albright; three brothers, Bill, Bob, and Cal Albright and one sister, Margie Fish.
