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More from CommunitiesKathryn Campbell Lee turned 100 on Aug. 20. A party was held in her honor at Mary Health of the Sick in Newbury Park on Aug. 18.
She was born and raised in Mound City, a small town near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in southern Illinois. After graduating from high school, she worked for the Farm Bureau in Mound City until she married Albert Lee in 1930 and moved to Cairo, Ill., seven miles south of Mound City.
Lee and her husband traveled some, and she has been to Hawaii, her favorite place, several times.
She moved to Thousand Oaks after her husband died in 1981. She volunteered at Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center for several years and then at Manna, the local food bank.
Lee moved to Mary Health of the Sick in September 2001.
She has one sister, who lives in Virginia, and a son, who lives near Dallas. Her daughter, who lived in Thousand Oaks, died May 11, 2005. She has one grandson, three granddaughters and eight great-grandchildren.
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