William J. Lee, Jr. Mr. William J. Lee, Jr., formerly of Niskayuna, NY, passed away on Friday, October 31st, at the Kingsway Manor Nursing Home, where he lived for nearly a year. He was 88 years old.

Mr. Lee was born in Winchester, Mass., the son of Irish immigrants from County Galway in Ireland. He attended Mission Hill High School in Roxbury, Mass., and worked for several years at the Boston Public Library to support his younger brother and sister while they finished high school. He enrolled in the United States Naval Reserve on October 27, 1954. He matriculated at Harvard University, but during what would have been his senior year, he was deployed from October 1961 to August 1962 as a sonarman on the destroyer the USS Miller during the Berlin Wall Crisis.

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