Lee McCoy Arrangements - Updated
Funeral arrangements have been announced for our friend and fellow farm broadcaster Lee McCoy.
Saturday, May 24 there will be a Memorial Service at 3:00 p.m. at:
Crossroads Church
2564 Sharpsburg McCollum Rd.
Newnan, GA 30265.
Then on Tuesday May 27 there will be a graveside service at:
Georgia National Cemetery
2025 Mount Carmel Church Lane
Canton, GA 30114
This will be a full military (U.S. Dept. of Navy) funeral as Lee was a Vietnam Vet who served on the USS Pomodon SS486 submarine. Funeral time will be announced later today.
Update: Lee’s wife says the graveside service will be at 12:00 noon. If you are attending the burial, please be at Sosebee’s Funeral home by 10:00 as this will give us time to pay our last respects and follow the procession to the Cemetery where a Naval Chaplain will officiate.
Arrangements are being handled by:
Sosebee Funeral Home
(770) 479-2131
191 Jarvis St
Canton, GA
Lee’s family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in his name to one of the following organizations that he supported:
The Lance Armstrong Foundation
The Georgia Cancer Coalition
VFW Peachtree City Post No. 9949
More on donations from Lee’s wife Aurora: If you are sending donations to the VFW Post 9949 where Lee was Post Commander, please send to this address:
VFW Post 9949
117 Chadwick Drive
Peachtree City, GA 30269
Aurora says Lee served his post with a lot of pride. He always made sure he was at a Veteran’s funeral to perform the Honor Guard and make sure the spouse received a beautifully folded flag. Many times he was so weak but he made it a point to be at the funeral and serve his fellow countrymen.
She is also contacting the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the Georgia Cancer Coalition so that they can set up the donation page in honor of Lee.
Be sure to check out the tribute post that Gary Cooper did about Lee on SE Agnet. The outpouring of sympathy from people in the industry who knew Lee has just been tremendous. He truly has touched so many lives.
If you would like to share your feelings or stories about Lee - please feel free to comment on this post, or yesterday’s post.
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Tommy Horton
My earlier message might not have made it on to this site. So, let me say again that words can’t really express what a special person Lee was to all of us in the ag media who worked with him for so many years. I traveled to many ag events with Lee and enjoyed his good humor, professionalism and friendship. He was a big guy with a big heart. We all knew that Lee had been battling cancer for a long time, and I have never known anyone with a more positive attitude. He simply refused to give up. I think we can all learn something from him in that regard. I have repeated this story many times, but every time Lee would be driving through Memphis on his way from Texas to Alabama, he would call me from the highway. We would catch up on all the news and chat about everything in the world….from the weather to politics to the price of gas in south Alabama. He loved people and had a contagious enthusiasm for everything that he was involved in on a day-to-day basis. I know I speak for many folks in the cotton industry when I say that we miss you, Lee. You may be gone, but you’ll never be forgotten.
Tommy Horton
Editor
Cotton Farming magazine
Memphis, Tenn.
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