Warsaw’s DeVon Lee Celebrated His 80th Birthday Tuesday

July 6, 2018 at 5:52 p.m.

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Warsaw’s DeVon Lee — fiction writer, retired journalist and businessman — celebrated his 80th birthday Tuesday.

Dan was born July 2, 1938. He and his wife, Amanda, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in 2019.

He is well-known to his family and friends as “Dan Lee,” the name under which he writes.

A community activist until recent years, Dan in 2011 was named National Co-Patriot of the year by Americans for Prosperity, Conservation of the Year by the Kosciusko Soil and Water Conservation District, and helped establish the Chapman Lakes Foundation, among his most cherished honors.

Raised in Wabash, he began his professional career at the Times-Union in Warsaw in 1957, and was a United States U.S. Army reservist.



Warsaw’s DeVon Lee — fiction writer, retired journalist and businessman — celebrated his 80th birthday Tuesday.

Dan was born July 2, 1938. He and his wife, Amanda, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in 2019.

He is well-known to his family and friends as “Dan Lee,” the name under which he writes.

A community activist until recent years, Dan in 2011 was named National Co-Patriot of the year by Americans for Prosperity, Conservation of the Year by the Kosciusko Soil and Water Conservation District, and helped establish the Chapman Lakes Foundation, among his most cherished honors.

Raised in Wabash, he began his professional career at the Times-Union in Warsaw in 1957, and was a United States U.S. Army reservist.



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