In Memory Of Louise Lee
SFR Medical Team

Louise's Candle

Monday, 2/15/99

Word just reaching the webteam a while ago. Louise Lee, wife of SFR Chief Medical Richard Lee,  has passed away after entering the hospital earier this month with a broken hip suffered in a bad fall.

Memorial services will be held Saturday, March 6 at 10 a.m. at the Stanford Chapel on the Stanford campus. There will be a reception following at the Lees. 

3/1 Revised driving directions

• From 101, take the University Avenue exit toward Palo Alto (west). Go through Palo Alto onto the Stanford Campus. The street name changes to Palm Drive. At the end of Palm Drive is the chapel.  (Palm Drive ends up in a circular road around a small park with the Stanford Quad  directly in front of you.
• From 280, take the Sand Hill Road exit going east toward Menlo Park. Go 3-4 miles until you get to Stanford Shopping Center. Turn right onto Arburetum. Go three lights and turn right onto Palm Drive. You are now on the Stanford campus. The chapel is at the end of Palm Drive.
• Parking will be at a premium so if you can, carpool. 

The Webteam  sends their deepest sympathy to Doc Lee and the rest of the Lee family.

Bob Stegall

Wednesday, 2/17

I have not heard of any plans for a service yet.  Dick Lee is still in his early recovery period (ed. after having suffered a broken hip in a separate fall).

Jane Newbury

Wednesday, 2/17

I first met Dick and Louise Lee when I was organizing the first medical team for the first Long Beach Grand Prix in 1974. It has been my sincere pleasure to have worked with them at various races ever sence. We all learned the true meaning of dedication when we witnessed Louise at work. She will truely be missed.

Ralph Baldwin

Thursday, 2/18

Memorial services will be held Sat March 6; details to follow. Doc is in good spirits and has his family with him. 

Scott Crawford

Thursday, 2/18

When I was a newbie on the Emergency crew, one of my first "deliveries" to Medical was met by Louise at the door of the clinic. With a driver under my arm, I must have appeared a bit too serious for the moment. As I helped the driver to a seat on the exam table, Louise turned to me in her mock serious way and said to me "What did you do to THIS one?! One of the rare times I was at a loss for words. What a sweetheart.I will remember her fondly.

Dale Hoag
Emergency

Friday, 2/19

Doc, Just want to send a message saying how sorry we all are.

A NOTE FROM SOMEONE ON THE PIT FIRE CREW:

I had a couple of chances to see you and your lovely wife in action. I would bring in a driver who had a problem or a crew member I must say it was like two chipmunks sharing the same oak tree. I mean you both were very calm, knew what to do and handled yourselves in the most professional manner. Thank you.

About two years ago at a NASCAR event I tore a leg mussel and broke a blood vessel. I managed to make it to Medical and Louise asked me , "What car did you kick?" She defiantly had a way of making people feel better just to be in her presence.

Dr., you proceeded to give me an exam and decided to give me a couple of pills and instructions on how I should see my own doctor the next day and how to take care of my leg. Louise was very professional in my treatment and we both had a great time. She had a way a making me feel so comfortable.

I thought you gave me a couple of pain pills and I hitched a ride down into the pit lane. Louise told me to stay off my leg (actually she told me to go home and stay off it for a week) and put an ice pack on it that she supplied. Well, one hour later I was sitting in the pit lane with the ice pack, next thing I knew I was asking one of my fellow pit fire workers to walk me to my car because I wasn't feeling too good. We made it about twenty feet and I went down,down,down. I mean on my face. Not in pain but with that happy smile some of you have had with a late night of partying.

Later that night at beer she caught me drinking. Boy did I get reamed! I then told her the story of me lying face down in the pit lane. We all had a great laugh, and it wasn't until last year did I find out what she had given me (that you, Dr. Lee had prescribed), two mussel relaxers.

Well, I'm getting tied of saying how much we will all miss the people we have lost in the last few months. We will! Thank you Louise...We'll miss you!

SFR PIT FIRE

Friday, 2/19

I was at Thunderhill and holding the yellow flag for a start when one of the local "I like yellow" yellow jackets found me.

I was stung in the arm pit and went from the re-entry to Doc Lee's "Patty center". Louise was there and Doc Lee about had a coniption when I told him I was alergic to bee stings. Doc Lee wanted to give me an adrenalin shot and Louise calmly said I don't think Dave is going to die...and gave me a benadryl and a glass of water. Ten minutes later she sent me back to work. When I think of the needle ...in the chest? adrenalin?? I am so grateful for Louise and her calm "Bedside Manner". Her presence was an Icon and her humor will be missed.

This is one of a million stories about the gentle lady in white. She was always in the background handing things to people ...the one thing I will always remember will be ...that they were ALWAYS the right things.

Dave Selvy

Sunday, February 28

I first met Doc and Louise at a national race, way back in 1973, at Seattle Int'l Raceway. We spent an evening in the old "Mother Ship" bending our elbows and talking. "Mom", as Louise was known to just about everyone, had taken over a position, with San Mateo county civil defense, from my mother, so there is a closeness that means I have lost two "Moms".

Smokey Harper

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