Lee is the second son, and fourth child to be born on Ida Myrtle Rudy Atkinson and Lawrence Guy Atkinson. He was raised primarily by his father, older sisters, and a little later a step mom. His mom died when he was very young. He was the youngest surviving child from his fathers first marriage. (There was a another pregnancy that ended in miscarriage leading to his mothers death after Lee was born.)
Lee had a total of eight kids, three of whom are now deceased. Lee's first wife was Mable Bell Atkinson (May 5, 1920-June 5, 2011) married Feb 24 1938 in Bountiful, Utah, together they produced a daughter, Linda Lee Atkinson (Jan 21,1941-Oct 21 2004), and a son, Lynn Bell Atkinson (Nov 4, 1938-Sept 8, 2000). His second marriage to Carma Wadley Atkinson McAllister (Apr 25, 1924-Nov 28, 1989) married Feb 23 1946 in Farmington, UT produced a daughter and a son (living, want to remain private). Lee's third marriage to Betty Lou Wing Atkinson married July 21 1952, produced two sons, and two daughters (one deceased). During his first marriage he used to ride his motorcyle from Lehi to Bountiful, in those days it was a bigger deal than in todays travels, and pick up one of his half sisters and take them back to Lehi for the weekend to babysit for Linda and Lynn. Whichever half sister was willing to babysit that weekend. My grandma didnt mind the baby sitting and really liked to ride on the back of the motorcycle and so she volunteered more than her share of times. Once there was a close call involving a truck and the motorcylce and after that Grandpa Guy, his father, would not let the girls ride on the motorcylce anymore and Lee stopped coming to pick them up to babysit. Lee and his first wife divorced soon after. Lee spend much of his adult life in Lehi, UT. He was raised in Woods Cross on the family farm, and was expected to do his work which included milking the cows. From what I hear all the boys in the family hated this chore, but later on some of them went on to own/operate their own dairy farms. The family was not rich and had many mouths to feed, but they always had what was needed.