Larry Michael Lee obit

Larry Michael Lee

January 5, 1947 - May 10, 2025

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Larry Michael Lee (self-penned)

I was born on the 5th day of January 1947 in Springfield, Missouri the son of Kenneth Clinton Lee and Joyce Earline Webb, and I shed this mortal coil on Saturday, May 10, 2025 at the age of 78.

I was preceded in death by both of my parents.  I am survived by my son, Kashi Dion Lee and his wife, Jennifer; by stepmother, Peggy Day Lee and stepsisters, Cyndi (Herrick) Driver and Patty (Herrick) Merritt.

I’ve chosen to be cremated and desire no formal services.  It was early on in this life that I found spiritual meaning within Nature and it became my church-so into Nature I return.

Therefore, in lieu of any memorial service or gathering of family and friends, I request that remembrance be observed individually by taking a long, slow, solitary walk through Nature and to embrace the gift of those moments as I would have.  To feel the earth beneath your feet, to take in the fragrances in the air, to follow a cloud as it drifts across the sky or dip a hand into a stream and treasure, even if for a brief few moments, the countless gifts in life.  But here’s the essential thing, don’t make that long slow walk about me, make it about you.

It's important to me that I emphasize to all that Kashi has been the greatest everlasting gift to my life.  With him, I created a woven web of memories that lasted my entire lifetime.  I was so proud of him for the caring and beautiful man he became.  He enriched my life beyond measure, and the love I’ve had for him will carry me on.

I’ve had a very blessed life.  There were those who inspired me and may never have known it.  Each person who I let in made an imprint that helped form me-whose love and care nourished and gave me balance and support.

I chose to live a somewhat solitary existence, not because I dislike others, but more in order to stay undistracted from my thoughts, observations, introspection and my quest to live in between the seconds.

As a result, I may have daydreamed more than most and imagined more than I actually saw.  But I heard music everywhere, especially out in Nature.  Music filled my life and gave it greater meaning and showed me moments of bliss.

What more could I have asked for? I was truly one lucky so in so.

“Long Flat Straight Highway” by Larry Michael Lee

Wouldn’t want to live my life another way

Wouldn’t want to change it, not a single day

Never had an urge to take that long, flat, straight highwa

Never had to listen yet I still could hear

Never had to focus just to see things clear

Didn’t take a lot for me to up and disappear

Had to make my own way round the madness

Had to seek a trail nobody was on

Had to learn to walk outside my shadow

Wouldn’t let a cloud confine me

Couldn’t let the sun not find me