Kinston Free Press DR. T. LESLIE LEE DIES OF HEART ATTACK SUNDAY: Prominent Surgeon and Obstetrician Passes at 10:30 P. M. at His Home; Funeral Rites at Church 11 Tuesday - Dr. Thomas Leslie Lee, 48, prominent obstetrician and gynecologist of the staff of Memorial General Hospital here, succumbed to a heart attack at his home at College Street and Roundtree Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. He had not been ill, but had returned a few hours earlier from a weekend trip to Morehead City. The funeral will be from the First Presbyterian Church at 11 a.m. Tuesday, with interment in Westview Cemetery. His pastor, Rev. Thomas H. Hamilton, will officiate. Elders in the church will be active pallbearers. Dr. Lee was a native of Kinston, a son of Mrs. Dora Bland Lee and the late T. R. Lee. He was educated in local schools and at Washington and Lee University. He took his medical work at the Medical College of Virginia. He had been associated with the local hospital since completion of his internship. Dr. Lee took his intern work at Sheltering Arms Hospital in Richmond, Va., and began his practice in the Kinston Clinic here in July of 1926. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a diplomat of the American Board of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He would have completed a six-year term on the State Board of Medical Examiners next May. He was a member of the North Carolina Obstetrical and Gynecology Society. He was pioneer in the field of cancer work. He was chairman of the executive committee of the N. C. Division of American Cancer Society. He served as chairman of the Cancer Committee of the State Medical Society, and was active in several statewide campaigns for that society. He was a prime mover in the founding of the Area Cancer Clinic in Kinston and served for a time as chairman of the Lenoir County Cancer Society. In addition to serving as president of the Lenoir Medical Society, Dr. Lee was president of the Seaboard Medical Society and active in both district and State societies for many years. He supported every worthwhile cause for the advancement of medicine in the county and State and was interested in civic and community affairs as well. Dr. Lee was active as an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, was a director of the Commercial National Bank here, was a member of the Elks, the Kiwanis Club and other organizations. Surviving are his mother, his widow, Mrs. Bertha Thomas Lee; two children, Patricia and Thomas L. Lee, Jr., of the home; one sister, Mrs. Ina Mae Lee of Kinston, and a niece, Mrs. Albert W. Cowper of Kinston. his father die in 1927.
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