More detail on this person: Gary Owen LeeI am a Veteran. of Little Rock, AR February 16, 1944 - March 19, 2022 Gary Owen Lee, 78, went to be with the Lord on March 19, 2022. He was born February 16, 1944 in Moberly, Missouri to Charles and Garnet Lee. He was raised in North Little Rock and was proud to be drum major for the largest high school band in the state at North Little Rock High. He attended the University of Arkansas where he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and was a proud member of ROTC. After graduation, he went on to flight school before he eventually became a helicopter pilot and served as Captain of Charlie Company in the 1st Cavalry division in Vietnam in 1970-71. Gary met Vicki at a church singles fellowship and were wed in June of 1982. At the same time, he gained the gift of his first daughter, Kristi. Their second daughter, Lori, was born the following year. He owned and managed Trigon Engineering, a small mechanical engineering firm, for 33 years until his retirement in 2013. Gary was exceptionally talented and could build, repair or paint almost anything. During his time at home, he could regularly be found down in his workshop intently focused on his current project. Whether he was painting a scene from a recent trip he and Vicki had taken together or building nutcrackers for friends at Christmas, he had a knack for creating beautiful things. He was an avid Razorback fan and had been a football season ticket holder for 52 years. He would proudly share that he could count on one hand the number of home games he had missed. Gary was a devoted Sunday school teacher at Geyer Springs beginning in the early 1970s and taught all the way up through his final months. The friends he gained over the years were some of his greatest blessings. Gary was preceded in death by his parents and survived by his wife, Vicki, two daughters, Kristi Furr and Lori Holbert, son-in-laws, Joey Furr and Trevor Holbert, four grandchildren, Jordan and Kameron Furr and Lee and Rhett Holbert, all of Little Rock, as well as a sister, Judy McGee of Fort Wayne, Indiana and other extended family. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Gary's name to the Wounded Warriors Project, Hospice Home Care or the Geyer Springs building fund. Visitation will be Wednesday, March 23, 2022 from 6-8-pm at Geyer Springs Baptist Church with funeral services following at Geyer Springs Thursday morning, March 24 th at 10 am.
Burial information: Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery
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