Death

Virgil Lee

FORT DEFIANCE — Services for Virgil "Roy" Lee, 37, will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 4, at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Fort Defiance. Father Gilbert will officiate. Burial will follow in the Fort Defiance Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m. today, April 3 at Tse Bonito Mortuary.

Lee died March 29. He was born Nov. 18, 1968 into the Tangle People Clan for the Water Edge People Clan.

Lee graduated from Window Rock High School in 1987. He was employed with the Resource Enforcement Navajo Nation Ranger's Dept. He was a member of NNRCA, AIRCA, SWIRA, RMIRA USTRC in the Team Roping Event. His hobbies included roping, horseback riding, hunting, and doing auto body work.

Survivors include his wife Vonda Rae Lee of Fort. Defiance; sons, Virgil Koy Lee, Rowan Royd Lee, both of Fort Defiance; daughter, Vironda Kai Lee of Fort Defiance; parents, Irene Watchman and stepfather Alvin Willis, both of Fort Defiance; Eddie Lee and stepmother, Della Lee, both of Rock Point, Ariz.; brothers Delbert Benally of Mesa, Ariz., Thomas Burnside Jr., of Fort Defiance and Michael Lee of Rock Point; sisters, Marianna Benally of Fort Defiance and Gaila Lee of Round Rock, Ariz., grandmother Louise Wachman of Fort Defiance.Lee was preceded in death by his grandparents Roscoe Watchman, Guy Lee, Annie Wilson and one brother, Aldrick Willis.

Pallbearers will be Dwayne Salaway, Jasper Curley, Warren Roan, Bryan Watchman, Jeremiah Johnson and Raymond Howard.

The family will receive relatives and friends at the Fort Defiance Chapter House after services.

Tse Bonito Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.