Lee Housewright

FORT WORTH -- Lee D. Housewright Jr., 89, passed away Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Denver, Colo.        Graveside service: 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: Friends will be received from noon to 7 p.m. Monday at Lucas Funeral Home, 517 N. Sylvania, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m.        Memorials: You may honor his memory with a gift to the First Christian Church, 612 Throckmorton St., Fort Worth, Texas 76102.        Lee was born Sept. 12, 1921, in Fort Worth to parents, Georgia Payne Lee and stepfather, Robert E. Lee and father, Lee D. Housewright Sr. Lee retired from Hormel Foods in 1983 as executive vice president in Austin, Minn. He was an active member of Rotary International, Masonic Lodge and Shrine, Austin Elks Club, Austin Country Club and Westminster Presbyterian Church. During his time with Hormel in Fremont, Neb., Lee was a board of director for the Fremont National Bank, a Fremont school board member, an admiral in the Nebraska Navy and a member of Fremont Country Club.        Lee graduated from Riverside High School in Fort Worth in 1939 and went on to graduate from Texas A&M University in College Station in industrial engineering. He was a proud Aggie Class of 43 and established two President's Endowed Scholarships and a Sul Ross Scholarship. He was an Endowed Diamond Century Club Member and created and endowed scholarship for industrial and systems engineering students. Lee served in World War II in the Corps of Engineers in the Pacific and continued in the Army Reserve for many years.        He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Nell Housewright; his daughter, Mary Lee Rowe; his stepbrother, Robert J. Lee; his mother, Georgia Payne Lee; his stepfather, Robert E. Lee; and his father, Lee D. Housewright Sr.        Survivors: Daughters, Carol Sue Cisler of Littleton, Colo., and Sherri Wirth and husband, John, of Littleton, Colo.; son-in-law, William Rowe of Bel Air, Md.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Lee Housewright please visit our Sympathy Store.