Florence Lee Putnam, a longtime resident of Inchelium, passed away March 7, 2007.
She was born Aug. 31, 1919, in the Dixie Hospital of Hampton, VA. Florence graduated from Hampton High School in 1937 and Farmville State Teacher's College (now Longwood University) in 1941. Florence was employed by NACA (now NASA) as a mathematician, continuing her longtime interest in aeronautics. In 1941, she met a young serviceman from Inchelium, Washington, Carl Putnam who was attending officer training at Ft. Monroe. They were married at St. Johns, Hampton, on May 1, 1944.
Florence was preceded in death by her parents, Beverly Wills and Julia Armistead; her twin brother, Beverly Wills Lee Jr.; and her sister, Julia Travis Lee.
She is survived by her husband, Carl Putnam; and her three children, James, Fred and Julia Putnam of Washington state; her siblings, Henry Lee, Rebecca Hunt and husband, Ray and Dorothy Halliday and husband Hugh of Virginia; and seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
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