Harry was the ninth of ten children born to John Frederick and Burnetta (Vandeveer) Lees. He married Hazel Vanata in 1918.

Pueblo Star-Journal, Pueblo, Colorado
March 25, 1940 - Page 7

FATHER OF 2 STAR-JOURNAL STAFF MEN DIES IN DENVER

Harry E. Lees, 61, Succumbs After Two Weeks Treatment Under Oxygen Tent
Harry E. Lees, 61, of 2610 Court Street, for many years a prominent figure in Colorado mining activity, expired at the Porter Sanitarium at Denver Sunday afternoon following a long illness.
Mr. Lees, who had resided in Pueblo for the last 19 years, had been in ailing health for several years. His condition became critical early in the month and on March 5 he was taken to the Denver Sanitarium. For the past two weeks he has been under a oxygen tent continuously.
Prominently identified with much of the mining activity in the state in the first two decades of the century, Mr. Lees at one time was general manager of practically all of the mining enterprises in the Creede district. He also had been associated with mining activity at Cripple Creek.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Hazel V. Lees; two sons, H. Clifford Lees, a member of The Star-Journal editorial staff, Raymond E. Lees, Star-Journal photographer; two daughters, Mrs. E. K. Edwards of Englewood, Colo., and Mrs. O. A. Turman of Culver City, Calif.; and a twin sister, Mrs. Carrie Snideman, of Denver.
The body was returned to Pueblo late Sunday night but funeral arrangements had not been completed.

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LEES- Harry E, at Denver Sunday. Survived by his widow, Mrs. Hazel V. Lees of the family home, 2610 Court street; two sons, H. Clifford Lees and Raymond E. Lees, both of Pueblo; two daughters, Mrs. E. K. Edwards, Englewood, Colo., and Mrs. O.A. Turman, Culver City, Calif., and a sister, Mrs. Carrie Snideman. Denver. Announcements later.