Myrtice E. Lee, 99, of West Monroe, Louisiana, passed away in Diana, Texas on November 11, 2023. Myrtice was born in Frost Town, Louisiana on March 16, 1924 to Lonnie and Bertie Frost.

Myrtice worked at the Calhoun High School cafeteria and attended Louisiana Tech University where she took classes in nutrition and earned a certification in childcare development, and soon opened her own daycare named “Lee’s Little People” in West Monroe. They moved to Danville, Arkansas for their retirement and spent many wonderful years before moving back to Louisiana. Myrtice was a member of the Westlakes Seventh Day Adventist Church and loved worshiping Jesus with her church family.

Myrtice is survived by her daughters Michalene “Michee” Roy (Larry), Deborah Bailey (Rikard), Cara Roach (Jim), as well as her brother Milton Frost; 46 grandchildren, great, and great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Coy Lee; parents, Lonnie L. Frost and Bertha May Poston Frost, daughters Mary Jane Robison, Velda Ann Head, Paula Colleen Powers; grandson Mark Lee,  granddaughter Lyndsay Malone, sisters, Orene Winniger, Magdelene Bennett, Marie Howard, Gertha Mae Arrant, Elise Carow; and a brother Cecil Frost.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 10:00 A.M.in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home with Dr. Rikard Bailey officiating. Interment will follow at Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Pleasant Valley Louisiana. Visitation will be held from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M., Friday, November 17, 2023 at Kilpatrick Funeral Home West Monroe.

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