Obituary for Leona (Inge) Gee
Graveside services for Leona F. (Inge) Gee, 98, of Albuquerque, will be held at 10:00 AM, Mon., Jan. 23, 2017 in the Mt. Zion Cemetery with Scott P. Reeves officiating. All of her family members will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Leona Florence Gee was born July 17, 1918 in Caddo County, OK to the home of May Abigail (Newton) and Benjamin Franklin Harris, and died at her home in Albuquerque on Jan. 19, 2017 at the age of 98 years, 6 months and 2 days. The family moved to northeast Texas when Leona was 10 years old. After only a year or two, they moved to NM. On July 3, 1934 in Clovis she was married to Terrell Glen Inge. They farmed in the Arch community until his death on Aug. 7, 1945. Following his death she attended cosmetology school, and became a licensed hairdresser.
In 1946 or ’47 she married Verlas Lee (Dutch) Flanagain. They moved to Gilham, AR to make their home, and then in 1950, they moved to Lake Dallas. In 1952 they moved into the city of Dallas. In Sept. 1953, Mr. Flanagain also passed away. Soon after that she moved to Plainview, TX. While living in Plainview she worked at the school cafeteria for several years.
In the fall of 1960 she moved to Lubbock to make her home. On Aug. 13, 1965, she was married to Cleo Cash Gee. While living in Lubbock, she worked for a film developing lab, picking up films at various grocery stores, drug stores, etc., and delivering them to the lab, and then taking them back when the pictures were developed. In about 1966 they moved to Albuquerque, and then on to Pagosa Springs, CO in the early 1970’s. She moved back to Lubbock in 1978, and then in the early 1980’s she moved back to Albuquerque. Mr. Gee also preceded her in death in 1990.
Mrs. Gee was a lifelong member of the Baptist church. She quilted and sewed all of her life, and in more recent years she enjoyed doing Indian bead work.
She is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, Wallace and Becky Inge and Gerald Inge of Brackettville, TX; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Verna Jo Andrews of Albuquerque, Jackie and Allen Hobbs of Eastland, TX, GayNell Flanagain of Albuquerque and Linda and Bill Schoonover of Pagosa Springs, CO; six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Besides all three of her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents, six brothers, Lawrence Elmer Harris, Cleo Ervin Harris, Benjamin Franklin Harris, Donald Willie Harris, Kenneth Wayne Harris and James Edward Harris, a sister, Mary Maxine (Harris) Johnson, a daughter, Floy Evelyn Inge and a grandson.