Lanell B. Lee

Monroe, Utah - Emily LaNell Baker Lee, age 89, returned to her Heavenly home on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at the home of her son in Oak City, Utah. She was born April 3, 1934, in Boulder, Utah, the ninth and youngest child of Edward Lester and Maggie Meachan Baker. Her Father was in the process of finishing the new home they had just moved into when he suffered a fatal heart attack on July 27, 1935, when LaNell was just 15 months old.

LaNell had a happy childhood playing in the sand and the creek and climbing the hills near their home. She loved gathering pine nuts, and pine gum in the Fall on the knoll to the north of their home. She started first grade in the two-room school in Boulder but finished in Richfield, Utah when the family moved there on the 4th of December 1940. LaNell attended school in Richfield until she graduated in 1953. She enjoyed her P.E. classes, especially basketball, baseball, and dancing.

LaNell’s older brother Jack married a beautiful girl from Monroe named Bonnie Lee. Bonnie had two younger brothers named Duane and Brant. LaNell and her best friend RaeLynn Schaugard became better acquainted with Duane and Brant when they caught the bus to the Monroe Pavillion to go rollerskating, and the brothers offered them a ride home that evening. They started dating and both couples eventually married, after Brant returned home from serving in the Korean War.

LaNell married Brant J Lee on December 19, 1953, in the St. George LDS Temple. They lived in Logan, Utah while Brant finished his education and then lived in Salt Lake City for four years when Brant started teaching school. Brant later got a teaching job in Monroe at South Sevier High School, and they moved to Monroe in 1960. He preceded her in death June 18, 2012.

LaNell was a very loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. She was a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Literose Club, and the Monroe Senior Citizens, where she contributed thousands of service hours quilting dozens and dozens of beautiful quilts.

She will be remembered for her boundless energy, her famous apple pies and dill pickles, her love of canning and gardening, and her immaculate weed-free yard. But she will be remembered even more notably for her constant Christlike love and selflessness. Her warm smile and loving disposition will be missed by all who knew her.

LaNell was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in many positions as a leader and teacher in her stake and ward. She and Brant served two church missions in Cove Fort, Utah.

Brant and LaNell are the proud parents of four children: Philip (Roxie) Lee, Thayne (Julie) Lee, Wayne (Peggy) Lee, and Ruthann (Tom) Brown. They have 21 grandchildren, and 40 great grandchildren (with 3 more on the way).

She is preceded in death by her parents; her siblings: Bessie Oblad, Dena Larsen, Hayward Baker, Floyd Baker, Don Baker, Jack Baker, Cleo Buchanan, LaRell Baker, May Winkle; her husband, Brant J Lee; and by two grandsons: Nathan Brant Lee and McKay Baker Lee.

Funeral services will be Saturday, March 23, 2024, in the Monroe 1st and 4th LDS Ward Chapel, 49 East 200 North in Monroe, where friends may call for viewing Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 prior to the services.

Live streaming of the services can be found at: www.springerturner.com under LaNell’s obituary about 15 minutes prior to starting time.

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Burial will be in the Monroe City Cemetery under the care of the Springer Turner Funeral Home of Richfield and Salina, Utah.