Jerry Noel Lee

Jerry Noel Lee was born on March the 18th, 1943 in Hollis Oklahoma.

He grew up as an only child on a cotton farm outside of the small community of Vinson, Oklahoma where he went to school.

He graduated from Vinson High School in May of 1961. Upon graduation, he attended Southwestern State College, which is known today as Southwestern University in Weatherford, OK.

He graduated in 1965 with a teaching and science degree and was married to Stanna Gene Brewer that same year. They began their life together there in Weatherford where Jerry began teaching school at Clinton High School.

In 1966 Jerry & Stanna moved to Emporia Kansas where Jerry had a fellowship from Kansas State teachers college and received his Masters in Education.

A year later, in 1967 they moved to Burns Flat where Jerry became the high school Biology and Chemistry teacher.

He taught at Burns Flat High School from 1967- 1973.

In January of 1972, they adopted a son whom they named Jared Lynn Lee. (Lynn after Jerry’s favorite Uncle, Lynn Spurlin).

In 1973, they moved to Coalgate, Oklahoma where Jerry taught school for one year.

In 1974, they adopted a daughter, Wendy Kay Lee. Jerry also made a career move that year, leaving teaching behind for the oilfield, where he became a data engineer.

In 1974, the now family of 4 moved back to Burns Flat, where Jerry would remain for the rest of his life.

Jerry worked for Macobar, Pinson, and Technical Drilling Services from 1974 until he and a friend began their own mud logging equipment company in 1980. They called itL&S Equipment.

It began in the back of Jerry’s garage and a year later they had a building in Elk City to call home.

In 1985, Jerry purchased the old Burns Flat post office across from the High School and moved L&S Equipment from Elk City to Burns Flat.

When the oilfield industry would slow down, Jerry would innovate to make ends meet by doing HVAC work and eventually in 1994 began Burns Flat Hardware which became a handy fixture in the community until the day of his passing.

Jerry was preceded in death by his parents Noel and Lillie Lee and his son-in-law Billy Belles.

His surviving family consists of his son Jared Lee and his wife Kelly of Oklahoma City, and their 4 children, Robert, Terry, Tristan and Taryn, his daughter Wendy Belles of Edmond and her son Chaiden who was a 2022 graduate of Burns Flat High School, and his ex-wife, Stanna Lee of Chickasha.

Jerry loved guns and in his younger years was an avid hunter.

He loved listening to conservative radio and supporting the NRA, and he loved to tinker with things and figure out how they worked and could fix just about anything.

He loved his friends and family, especially his grandkids. He loved to share with them the things that they were interested in.

He loved to shoot guns with Chaiden and loved following Robert, Terry and Tristan’s baseball games.

He would find all kinds of barbie dolls and girlie things for Taryn to play with as well.

He was beloved by his family and all those who knew him and depended on him in the community that he loved and served in for 55 years.