Mr. Wilbert Keith Lee, 69, of Glen St. Mary, Fla., passed away Sunday evening, March 19, 2017, at the Warner Center for Caring in Fernandina Beach.
Born in Jacksonville, he was the only son and one of two children born to the late Wilbert Therrell Lee and Hazel Proctor Lee. He grew up in the Grand Parke section of North Jacksonville and attended Paxon High School. After high school, Mr. Lee began a long career in the industrial construction industry. He worked as a crane operator for many years on projects to include the Dames Point Bridge as well as at the Jacksonville Shipyards until retiring in the mid-2000s. He had been a resident of Glen St. Mary since the 1990s.
Mr. Lee had a passion for motorcycles and was an avid ham radio operator.
He leaves behind his former wife, Helen L. Hemingway, the mother of their three children: two daughters, Angela Loftis and her husband, Matthew, of Clover, S.C., and Dawn Bush and her husband, Tony, of Yulee, and one son, Kevin Lee and his wife, Brenda, of Fernandina Beach; a sister, Gilda Starr Brower of Kissimmee; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a nephew.
Funeral services were Tuesday afternoon, March 21, in the Burgess Chapel of Oxley-Heard.
His family received friends on Tuesday at the funeral home until the hour of service.
Please share his Life Story, and leave your memories and condolences at www.oxleyheard.com.
Oxley-Heard Funeral Directors