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Ellen Irene Ming LeCompte  Photo courtesy of Heather Serrill Janise |
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Funeral services for Joseph J. LeCompte, 73, were scheduled for 2 p. m. today at Community Baptist Church of Matagorda with the Revs. Joe Ramsey and Fred Carter officiating. Graveside services will be conducted by the VFW at Matagorda Cemetery. Mr. LeCompte was born Nov. 6, 1915, in Palacios to Pete and Alice Ryman LeCompte and died Dec. 4, 1988, at Veterans Hospital, Houston. A lifelong resident of Matagorda, he was a member of VFW Post 4459, DAV part-life member chapter 230 and the Community Baptist Church, Matagorda. Survivors include his wife, Vera Nadine LeCompte of Matagorda; two sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Barbara LeCompte of Freeport and Charles Ray and Linda King of Navasota; two daughters and sons-in-law, Docia Marie and Joseph Stuber of Bay City and Mary Kathryn and Dwain McLain of Houston; three sisters, Lela Smith and Ethel Solomon of Matagorda and Rosley Stringham of Port Lavaca; 11 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren. Services are under the direction of Dick R. Elkins, Bay City Funeral Home. Daily Tribune, December, 1988
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Leo P. LeCompte  Photo courtesy of Heather Serrill Janise |
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LeCompte, Paul Miller, 75, died Thursday morning at home on Cedarvale Road. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at Taylor Bros. Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Matagorda Cemetery, Ellis Johnson, presiding minister of Jehovah’s Witnesses, officiating. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Helen Clark of Bay City; a son-in-law, J. E. Clark of Bay City; two sisters, Mrs. Eva Ledbetter of Houston and Mrs. Katie Ryman of Bay City; one brother, J. M. LeCompte of Matagorda. Pallbearers will be Maurice New, Jim Starks, Frank Gayle, George Kilbride, Herb Elliott, Ronnie Michalec. Lecompte was a resident of Bay City for 25 years. Daily Tribune, August 23?, 1968
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(Editor’s Note: Sometimes we don’t miss a person until he’s no longer with us. Such a man was Austin Lee. He selflessly served his neighbors and friends and he died as quietly as he had served. He’s gone but, as this tribute from a friend and neighbor indicates, is far from forgotten. The Tribune is happy to print this tribute to a good man.) Many people in Bay City did not know Austin Lee. A quiet, unassuming native of Matagorda County, his death came quietly, as he was watching television in the home of a long-time friend. He died the day after Christmas, at the age of 76. He lived at 2612 Avenue H, the home of his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Amos Lee. Some people thought of him as a “loner.” He was anything but that. In his early years he was a clerk for the B&M Railroad. In his retirement years he spent his time doing an unheralded thing for all of his neighbors within a circle of an unknown number of blocks. Before daylight each day, he took a long walk around each of these blocks, and put the morning Houston Post right in the door of each subscriber to that paper. Then, in the afternoon he took the same walk and put The Daily Tribune and The Houston Chronicle in each subscriber’s doorway, where the carriers for these papers threw them in the yards. It was never too cold, too rainy, or too hot for him to take those two daily walks seven days a week. Many times he picked up the papers out of wet ditches, or the street, or the frequently-hard-to-find places where papers sometimes land. The myriad number of people who never had to brace the elements to go out and look for their daily papers will remember Austin’s kindly service for days and years to come. Neighbors say—He accepted the infrequent “Thanks” with his particular unassuming humility that bordered on embarrassment. He explained that he walks did him “more good” than anything else. On the day of his death, he had taken his morning and evening walks, and it was that night that he quietly took his last breath sitting in a comfortable chair as he was about to watch his favorite TV program. It is fitting to say that his many neighbors and friends felt that a special Providence had taken care of him, in that his sudden death had not occurred while he was performing his daily service during the recent cold weather. A lifelong member of the Methodist church, he was at all services and delighted to greet people at the door. And at the church he gave of his services in many unselfish ways. He would “Lend a Hand” and help whenever he had the opportunity. Members report—There is a void now at the Methodist church when its doors are open; his absence is felt. For the past few years, he quietly assumed a weekly responsibility. He would pick up one of Bay City’s accompanists and take her to play for religious services at one of the city’s nursing homes. In this busy world there are two few people who go out of their way to serve their fellowman. And many of those who do “favors” and services for others expect to get credit for the doing. But not Austin Lee. To paraphrase lines from a well known poem, Austin chose to “live in his house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.” And in so doing he leaves his own commemorative memorial as a worthy example for others to follow.
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Funeral services for Jonathan Delbert “Pappy” Lee, 76, of Bay City, formerly of Selkirk Island, are scheduled for 2 p. m. Thursday at Harvest Time Church with the Rev. Jim Hardaway officiating. Burial will be in Matagorda Cemetery in Matagorda. Mr. Lee was born Oct. 19, 1917 in Coffeyville, Kan. and died Oct. 26, 1993 in Vencor Hospital in Houston. Survivors include a son, Jonathan Gail Lee of Channelview; two daughters, Cissy DeSoto of Bay City and Debbie Stanley of Port Lavaca; two brothers, Cleo Lee of Channelview and Leo Lee of Connecticut; a sister, Phyllis Welch of Lufkin; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services are under the direction of Dick R. Elkins, Bay City Funeral Home. Daily Tribune, October 27?, 1993
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Funeral services for Joy Lucille Lee, 76, of Matagorda will be Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 11 a. m. at the Community Baptist Church in Matagorda with Rev. Isaiah Gartica presiding and Rev. Cornelius Bass, eulogist. Burial will follow at Matagorda Cemetery in Matagorda. She was born in Matagorda, Texas, Tuesday, April 7, 1925, to Thomas Barnes and Lucille Moore Barnes and passed away Friday, Nov. 23 in Bay City, Texas. She was a faithful member of St. Peter’s Baptist Church in Matagorda. She was also a member of the Heroines of Jericho and the Eastern Star. By her passing, she will be missed. Survivors include: three daughters, Bettye Lee Dawson of Bay City, Carrie Lee of Lithonia, Georgia, and Beverly Lee-Bass and the Rev. Cornelius of San Marcos; and three sons, Samuel Lee and Fern of Waco, Walter Lee III and Shebra of Odessa, and Montie Lee of Matagorda; and by two brothers, Joe Barnes of Los Angeles, Calif., and Bobby Barnes of Houston; 6 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends who knew her as “Nanny” and “Mama Joy.” Active pallbearers will be Ricky Austin, Ira Joe Edison, Raymond Gartica, Ronnie Holt, Sam Allen, Manuel Gartica, Wilson Gee and Steven Trevino. Arrangements are with Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home in Bay City. A000111A2001NV27 Daily Tribune, November 27, 2001 Walter Lee
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Willie, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Lee, died about 9 o’clock Tuesday night, after a week of most intense suffering of appendicitis. Supposing that he had only a severe bilious attack, and _____ ___, his parents administered the usual simple remedies and refrained from calling a physician till it was too late for a surgical operation to excise the vermiform appendix. While their supposition was reasonable and right as any other parents might had made, knowledge of the fact that the proper attention of a physician would probably have saved the precious little life renders their grief all the more poignant. We are told that little Willie’s death-bed ___ was one of the most remarkable that any ten-year-old child was ever the center of. His father told him that he must die and asked if he felt ready to go. He said yes; he knew he was going to die, and that while he would like to live, he felt prepared to die. He told them that though the doctor had said it was too late to operate, he should have operated anyway; that he could have stood it. Then he offered? a prayer as rational and sensible as any grown person could have said under like circumstances, and calling the members of the family, one at a time, he told each good bye and gave each a farewell kiss. Mind you, while the brave little boy was doing all these sensible and beautiful things, conscious that he was in the throes of death, his little body was tortured by the most excruciating pain! Willie was an unusually bright child and was one of the very best boys of our acquaintance. Handsome, frank, and well-bred, he was always a perfect little gentleman. His illness was a matter of general knowledge and anxiety for his recovery was universal. Probably no person has ever passed out of this community for whom so many and such earnest prayers were tendered?. All hearts share the sorrow of the grief-stricken father and mother. The remains were taken to Matagorda for burial on Tuesday. Daily Tribune?, June 22, 1903 [portions were illegible] William Patilla “Willie” Lee One of the saddest scenes witnessed here for many a day occurred last Tuesday evening when the passenger brought in the remains of little Willie Lee and his broken hearted parents, Amos ad Annie Lee of Bay City. They were met at the depot by many sorrowing relatives and sympathizing friends who followed him to his last resting place. All the Sunday school children, many of whom were his playmates, followed two by two to the yard bearing garlands of flowers which they placed on his grave. Rev. C. N. Morton conducted the funeral services. The pall-bearers were Julian Inglehart, Milam Currie, Ed Layton, Murray Elson, Green Savage and Rucks Moberly. What a sweet consolation to know that this darling child is now numbered with the blest and that he is walking hand in hand with his little brother on the other shore, eagerly awaiting the time when papa and mamma shall join him in that better land where there is no more parting, sorrow, pain or death.
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