Larry Dale Lee
A memorial service for Larry Dale Lee will be held at 1 pm today in Edwards Funeral Home, Doniphan, with the Rev. Wade Rogers officiating.
Mr. Lee, 41, was born on Oct. 16, 1958, in Rockford, Ill. He died of stab wounds on Dec. 28, 1999, in his apartment in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
He was raised in Doniphan, Mo. and graduated from Doniphan High School in 1976. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Doniphan.
He is survived by his mother, Vera Lewis, Phoenix, Ariz.; his father, Lehman Lee, Doniphan; a sister, Janine Lee Zerger, Paducah, KY; two brothers, James Dennis Lee, Doniphan, and Scott Lee, Prior Lake, Minn.; two nephews and a niece; and countless friends from every place he's lived.
Lee won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1988 for a series on poverty in the Bootheel that appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1987.
Larry Lee : REPORTER SLAIN IN GUATEMALA HAD WORKED IN TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS
An American journalist found stabbed to death in his Guatemala City apartment may have been the victim of a robbery, police said Wednesday.
Guatemala's Foreign Press Club condemned the killing in a press statement and called on authorities to fully investigate the crime.
Larry Lee, 41, a reporter with the Bridge News financial wire service and a former staffer for The Knoxville News-Sentinel, had been working in Guatemala for about a year, authorities said. He was from Doniphan, Mo., and had worked in The Commercial Appeal's Forrest City, Ark., Bureau in 1988.
Lee's semi-clothed body was found Tuesday morning on the bed of his apartment in an affluent downtown neighborhood. A janitor found the body when he entered the apartment, after being alerted by a friend of the reporter who found the door to his apartment open and stained with blood.
An unidentified assailant had apparently slashed Lee's throat and stabbed him several times, according to police investigators speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Official autopsy results have not yet been released.
Friends of the reporter said he had recently placed an advertisement in a local newspaper offering some of his possessions for sale, and police said that has led them to consider robbery as a possible motive in the crime.
Lee, a University of Missouri graduate, was an intern for Tennessee's Knoxville News-Sentinel in 1987. He returned as a reporter and copy editor from 1989 to 1994.
Lee was also an assistant city editor at the San Antonio Express-News in Texas from November 1997 until June 1998, according to Express-News deputy metro editor Kym Fox. Lee earlier worked at the El Paso Herald-Post.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 30, 1999
A memorial service for Larry Dale Lee will be held at 1 pm today in Edwards Funeral Home, Doniphan, with the Rev. Wade Rogers officiating.
Mr. Lee, 41, was born on Oct. 16, 1958, in Rockford, Ill. He died of stab wounds on Dec. 28, 1999, in his apartment in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
He was raised in Doniphan, Mo. and graduated from Doniphan High School in 1976. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Doniphan.
He is survived by his mother, Vera Lewis, Phoenix, Ariz.; his father, Lehman Lee, Doniphan; a sister, Janine Lee Zerger, Paducah, KY; two brothers, James Dennis Lee, Doniphan, and Scott Lee, Prior Lake, Minn.; two nephews and a niece; and countless friends from every place he's lived.
Lee won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1988 for a series on poverty in the Bootheel that appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1987.
Larry Lee : REPORTER SLAIN IN GUATEMALA HAD WORKED IN TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS
An American journalist found stabbed to death in his Guatemala City apartment may have been the victim of a robbery, police said Wednesday.
Guatemala's Foreign Press Club condemned the killing in a press statement and called on authorities to fully investigate the crime.
Larry Lee, 41, a reporter with the Bridge News financial wire service and a former staffer for The Knoxville News-Sentinel, had been working in Guatemala for about a year, authorities said. He was from Doniphan, Mo., and had worked in The Commercial Appeal's Forrest City, Ark., Bureau in 1988.
Lee's semi-clothed body was found Tuesday morning on the bed of his apartment in an affluent downtown neighborhood. A janitor found the body when he entered the apartment, after being alerted by a friend of the reporter who found the door to his apartment open and stained with blood.
An unidentified assailant had apparently slashed Lee's throat and stabbed him several times, according to police investigators speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Official autopsy results have not yet been released.
Friends of the reporter said he had recently placed an advertisement in a local newspaper offering some of his possessions for sale, and police said that has led them to consider robbery as a possible motive in the crime.
Lee, a University of Missouri graduate, was an intern for Tennessee's Knoxville News-Sentinel in 1987. He returned as a reporter and copy editor from 1989 to 1994.
Lee was also an assistant city editor at the San Antonio Express-News in Texas from November 1997 until June 1998, according to Express-News deputy metro editor Kym Fox. Lee earlier worked at the El Paso Herald-Post.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 30, 1999
Larry Dale Lee
A memorial service for Larry Dale Lee will be held at 1 pm today in Edwards Funeral Home, Doniphan, with the Rev. Wade Rogers officiating.
Mr. Lee, 41, was born on Oct. 16, 1958, in Rockford, Ill. He died of stab wounds on Dec. 28, 1999, in his apartment in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
He was raised in Doniphan, Mo. and graduated from Doniphan High School in 1976. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Doniphan.
He is survived by his mother, Vera Lewis, Phoenix, Ariz.; his father, Lehman Lee, Doniphan; a sister, Janine Lee Zerger, Paducah, KY; two brothers, James Dennis Lee, Doniphan, and Scott Lee, Prior Lake, Minn.; two nephews and a niece; and countless friends from every place he's lived.
Lee won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1988 for a series on poverty in the Bootheel that appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1987.
Larry Lee : REPORTER SLAIN IN GUATEMALA HAD WORKED IN TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS
An American journalist found stabbed to death in his Guatemala City apartment may have been the victim of a robbery, police said Wednesday.
Guatemala's Foreign Press Club condemned the killing in a press statement and called on authorities to fully investigate the crime.
Larry Lee, 41, a reporter with the Bridge News financial wire service and a former staffer for The Knoxville News-Sentinel, had been working in Guatemala for about a year, authorities said. He was from Doniphan, Mo., and had worked in The Commercial Appeal's Forrest City, Ark., Bureau in 1988.
Lee's semi-clothed body was found Tuesday morning on the bed of his apartment in an affluent downtown neighborhood. A janitor found the body when he entered the apartment, after being alerted by a friend of the reporter who found the door to his apartment open and stained with blood.
An unidentified assailant had apparently slashed Lee's throat and stabbed him several times, according to police investigators speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Official autopsy results have not yet been released.
Friends of the reporter said he had recently placed an advertisement in a local newspaper offering some of his possessions for sale, and police said that has led them to consider robbery as a possible motive in the crime.
Lee, a University of Missouri graduate, was an intern for Tennessee's Knoxville News-Sentinel in 1987. He returned as a reporter and copy editor from 1989 to 1994.
Lee was also an assistant city editor at the San Antonio Express-News in Texas from November 1997 until June 1998, according to Express-News deputy metro editor Kym Fox. Lee earlier worked at the El Paso Herald-Post.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 30, 1999
A memorial service for Larry Dale Lee will be held at 1 pm today in Edwards Funeral Home, Doniphan, with the Rev. Wade Rogers officiating.
Mr. Lee, 41, was born on Oct. 16, 1958, in Rockford, Ill. He died of stab wounds on Dec. 28, 1999, in his apartment in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
He was raised in Doniphan, Mo. and graduated from Doniphan High School in 1976. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Doniphan.
He is survived by his mother, Vera Lewis, Phoenix, Ariz.; his father, Lehman Lee, Doniphan; a sister, Janine Lee Zerger, Paducah, KY; two brothers, James Dennis Lee, Doniphan, and Scott Lee, Prior Lake, Minn.; two nephews and a niece; and countless friends from every place he's lived.
Lee won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1988 for a series on poverty in the Bootheel that appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch in 1987.
Larry Lee : REPORTER SLAIN IN GUATEMALA HAD WORKED IN TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS
An American journalist found stabbed to death in his Guatemala City apartment may have been the victim of a robbery, police said Wednesday.
Guatemala's Foreign Press Club condemned the killing in a press statement and called on authorities to fully investigate the crime.
Larry Lee, 41, a reporter with the Bridge News financial wire service and a former staffer for The Knoxville News-Sentinel, had been working in Guatemala for about a year, authorities said. He was from Doniphan, Mo., and had worked in The Commercial Appeal's Forrest City, Ark., Bureau in 1988.
Lee's semi-clothed body was found Tuesday morning on the bed of his apartment in an affluent downtown neighborhood. A janitor found the body when he entered the apartment, after being alerted by a friend of the reporter who found the door to his apartment open and stained with blood.
An unidentified assailant had apparently slashed Lee's throat and stabbed him several times, according to police investigators speaking on customary condition of anonymity. Official autopsy results have not yet been released.
Friends of the reporter said he had recently placed an advertisement in a local newspaper offering some of his possessions for sale, and police said that has led them to consider robbery as a possible motive in the crime.
Lee, a University of Missouri graduate, was an intern for Tennessee's Knoxville News-Sentinel in 1987. He returned as a reporter and copy editor from 1989 to 1994.
Lee was also an assistant city editor at the San Antonio Express-News in Texas from November 1997 until June 1998, according to Express-News deputy metro editor Kym Fox. Lee earlier worked at the El Paso Herald-Post.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: December 30, 1999
Family Members
Parents
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
