LEE, Juanita (Fernandez)- Of Durham, NC formerly of Malden, November 24th. Devoted wife of the late Eugene C. Lee, Sr. Beloved mother of Eugene C. Lee, Jr. and his wife Jane of Durham, NC, Joseph Lee of Lynn, Yolanda Melusky and her husband Edward of Georgetown, Robert Lee and his wife Karen of Durham, NC, Belinda Nolan and her husband Lloyd of Lynn, Vivien Bryan and her husband Richard of Durham, NC and Stephen Lee and his wife Veronica of Hudson, NH. Dear sister of America Berrios of Puerto Rico and the late Blanca Fernandez, Amelia Berrios, Carmen Berrios, Sarin Fernandez, Iris Suarez,Margarita Rivera and Anna Fernandez Diaz. Also lovingly survived by 19 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews. Family and friends are kindly invited to attend a Funeral Service on Friday, December 3rd in the First Baptist Church, 561 Main Street, Melrose at 10 AM with Pastor Jeff Francis, officiating. Visiting Hours will be held in the Carroll Funeral Home, 721 Salem Street, MALDEN on Thursday from 4-7 PM. Services will conclude with interment at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, 185 Lake Street, West Peabody. Expressions of sympathy in her name may be made to United Hospice, 301 S. Church Street, Suite 122, Rocky Mount, NC 27804.
Born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Juanita passed away in Durham, NC Wednesday at the age of 86.
A resident of Greenleaf Street in Malden from 1976 until 2000 when she moved to Durham, NC. For many years she worked at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston, the Kernwood Restaurant in Malden and lastly from the Harvard Faculty Club at Harvard University from which she retired in 1985. Juanita loved to garden, entertain family and friends with her gourmet cooking, music and hospitality. She loved watching her children play sports, go Antiquing in Marblehead, keeping up with the Royal family in England and belonged to the Victorian Society in Malden as well as the Don Orione Society in Boston.