Dr. Kela L. Fee

Published 12:00 am Sunday, December 14, 2008

Dr. Kela Lyons Fee, 43, of Bowling Green, died at 10:17 p.m. Dec. 12, 2008, at Hospice of Southern Kentucky.

The Tompkinsville native was born July 22, 1965. She was an obstetrician/gynecologist in Bowling Green for 10 years. During her residency, she was elected Alpha Omega Alpha and was administrative chief resident. She opened her medical practice in Bowling Green in 1997, and for the past four years has been an active fundraiser for the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville. A graduate of University of Kentucky and University of Louisville School of Medicine, she was an active member of 4-H, played basketball and was senior class president and salutatorian at Tompkinsville High School. She was also elected National Miss T.E.E.N. in 1984. She was a loving wife, mother, daughter and sister. She was a daughter of the late Hade Lyons Jr. and Loretta Baxter Lyons of Tompkinsville, who survives. She was preceded in death by a brother, Teddy Lyons; and grandparents Hade and Jewel Wax Lyons, and Bazz and Della Harlan Baxter.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Broadway United Methodist Church, where she was a member, with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Visitation is from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at the church.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Attn: Heather Falmen, Kela Fee Endowment Fund for Clinical Trial Research, 529 South Jackson St., Louisville, KY 40202.

Other survivors include her husband, Dr. Kirk Alexander Fee; two sons, James Alexander and Thomas Baxter Fee, both of Bowling Green; two brothers, Kerry Lyons and his wife, Susan, and Kevin Lyons and his wife, Regena, all of Tompkinsville; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.