Henrietta Lee

Funeral services for Henrietta Lee, age 97, of Albert Lea will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, December 29, 2014 at First Lutheran Church in Ellendale.  Rev. Cary Larson will officiate.  Interment will be at First Lutheran Cemetery in Ellendale.  Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.  
Henrietta died Thursday, December 25, 2014 at Thorne-Crest Retirement Center.
Henrietta Sedmurna Lee was born May 9, 1917, the third daughter of Henry and Sena (Thompson) Langlie.  She was baptized and confirmed in First Lutheran Church of Ellendale.  She graduated from Ellendale School in 1935.  In 1937 Henrietta was united in marriage to Paul Lee of Owatonna by Rev. Knutson, the pastor of First Lutheran Church, Ellendale.  In the early 1940’s Paul accepted a position with the Post Engineers in Seward, Alaska, where they lived for 15 years.  They then moved to Fairbanks so their son could attend a bigger school. In 1973, after losing their son Curtis and going through the flood in Fairbanks, Henrietta and Paul moved to Montana. They moved again, in the early 1990’s, to Minnesota and they enjoyed being back with family and friends. Paul passed away in 2004. During the 1990’s her brothers Arvid, Athan, Howard, Leighton, and Eugene, as well as her sisters Orpha and Arvilla all passed away. This left Henrietta as the last survivor of Henry and Sena Langlie.
Survivors include her sisters-in-law and many nieces and nephews.