Zella Green Lee was born in Mt. Vernon, Ore, daughter of Sidney Thomas Green and Amelia Catherine Damon. She grew up on her parent's ranch but chose to attend high school in Boise, ID after which she returned and attended the University of Oregon, receiving a B.A. degree in Education.
She taught one year at Enterprise, Oregon, before accepting a teaching position in Washington State. Her skills so impressed the superintendant of the Odessa schools that she was soon selected for a position in that District. There she taught both grade school and high school music and English classes, and trained two girls' glee clubs in the high school and they received the county championship each year.
During her time in Odessa she met Leslie W. Lee and they married. Mrs. Lee gave up teaching while she raised her four children, sons Leslie Jr. and Robert and daughters Margaret and Patricia.
Mrs. Lee returned to education after her children were grown and spent most of her remaining career in the West Valley school district of Spokane teaching at Millwood and Seth Woodward schools, retiring in 1966. Also during that time she earned her Master's degree from Washington State college at Cheney.
She loved dancing and often took tours out of the county with the Arthur Murray studios. Besides her continued musical interests she followed the careers of Leslie Jr. and Margaret, both of who had gone into education; her son Robert, an officer in the Air Force; and daughter Patricia, an opera singer and an Associate Professor at Mt. Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.
She is cherished by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a niece and her children.
She taught one year at Enterprise, Oregon, before accepting a teaching position in Washington State. Her skills so impressed the superintendant of the Odessa schools that she was soon selected for a position in that District. There she taught both grade school and high school music and English classes, and trained two girls' glee clubs in the high school and they received the county championship each year.
During her time in Odessa she met Leslie W. Lee and they married. Mrs. Lee gave up teaching while she raised her four children, sons Leslie Jr. and Robert and daughters Margaret and Patricia.
Mrs. Lee returned to education after her children were grown and spent most of her remaining career in the West Valley school district of Spokane teaching at Millwood and Seth Woodward schools, retiring in 1966. Also during that time she earned her Master's degree from Washington State college at Cheney.
She loved dancing and often took tours out of the county with the Arthur Murray studios. Besides her continued musical interests she followed the careers of Leslie Jr. and Margaret, both of who had gone into education; her son Robert, an officer in the Air Force; and daughter Patricia, an opera singer and an Associate Professor at Mt. Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.
She is cherished by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a niece and her children.
Zella Green Lee was born in Mt. Vernon, Ore, daughter of Sidney Thomas Green and Amelia Catherine Damon. She grew up on her parent's ranch but chose to attend high school in Boise, ID after which she returned and attended the University of Oregon, receiving a B.A. degree in Education.
She taught one year at Enterprise, Oregon, before accepting a teaching position in Washington State. Her skills so impressed the superintendant of the Odessa schools that she was soon selected for a position in that District. There she taught both grade school and high school music and English classes, and trained two girls' glee clubs in the high school and they received the county championship each year.
During her time in Odessa she met Leslie W. Lee and they married. Mrs. Lee gave up teaching while she raised her four children, sons Leslie Jr. and Robert and daughters Margaret and Patricia.
Mrs. Lee returned to education after her children were grown and spent most of her remaining career in the West Valley school district of Spokane teaching at Millwood and Seth Woodward schools, retiring in 1966. Also during that time she earned her Master's degree from Washington State college at Cheney.
She loved dancing and often took tours out of the county with the Arthur Murray studios. Besides her continued musical interests she followed the careers of Leslie Jr. and Margaret, both of who had gone into education; her son Robert, an officer in the Air Force; and daughter Patricia, an opera singer and an Associate Professor at Mt. Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.
She is cherished by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a niece and her children.
She taught one year at Enterprise, Oregon, before accepting a teaching position in Washington State. Her skills so impressed the superintendant of the Odessa schools that she was soon selected for a position in that District. There she taught both grade school and high school music and English classes, and trained two girls' glee clubs in the high school and they received the county championship each year.
During her time in Odessa she met Leslie W. Lee and they married. Mrs. Lee gave up teaching while she raised her four children, sons Leslie Jr. and Robert and daughters Margaret and Patricia.
Mrs. Lee returned to education after her children were grown and spent most of her remaining career in the West Valley school district of Spokane teaching at Millwood and Seth Woodward schools, retiring in 1966. Also during that time she earned her Master's degree from Washington State college at Cheney.
She loved dancing and often took tours out of the county with the Arthur Murray studios. Besides her continued musical interests she followed the careers of Leslie Jr. and Margaret, both of who had gone into education; her son Robert, an officer in the Air Force; and daughter Patricia, an opera singer and an Associate Professor at Mt. Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.
She is cherished by numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a niece and her children.
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