William P. Lee, a retired Baltimore stockbroker and former Glen Arm resident, died June 21 at Rolling Green Village senior retirement community in Greenville, S.C., of cancer. He was 88.
The son of Frederic Collins Lee, a chemist, and Adelaide Woodcock Lee, a homemaker, William Palmer Lee was born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington.
He was a direct descendant of Col. Richard Lee and Anna Lee, progenitors of the Lee family of Virginia, and Thomas Sim Lee, who was the second governor of Maryland.
Mr. Lee attended St. Paul's School for Boys and City College. During World War II, he served as a mechanic in the Air Force. He earned his General Education Development certificate.
He earned a bachelor's degree in business in 1951 from the Johns Hopkins University. After graduation, he moved to Newark, Del., and began his business career at E.I. duPont de Nemours and Co. in Wilmington, Del.
Mr. Lee returned to Baltimore and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and Chapin Davis before retiring in 1988.
He was a former resident of Glen Arm and Petersville, Frederick County, and had lived for 18 years on Martha's Vineyard with his wife, the former Laura Lee Neilson, whom he married in 1994. For the last two years, they had resided at the Greenville retirement community.
Mr. Lee was a former lieutenant in the Delaware wing of the Civil Air Patrol, and for 50 years, he held a private pilot's license and enjoyed flying his Cessna. He was also an inveterate sailor.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. July 10 in the cemetery of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 4231 Catholic Church Road, Knoxville, Frederick County.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Lee is survived by a son, William Corbin Lee of Huntsville, Ala.; two daughters, Constance Chatard Lee Pullella and Hannah Tyson Lee Spradling, both of Leesburg, Va.; and five grandchildren. An earlier marriage to the former Constance Chatard ended in divorce.