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Joseph Manning Lee, 72 years old, passed away on July 23, 2024, in Morristown, New Jersey, from lung disease. Joe lived in Basking Ridge N.J . He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Julie Maloney, six children, and seven grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Clifford. He grew up Kensington and after WJ went to the University of Notre Dame where he graduated magna cum laude. Joe attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and later specialized in telecommunications law, including at Bell Atlantic, Teleport Communications Group in New York, and AT&T. He retired in 2016. According to his obiturary, he will be rembered as a family man with a great sense of humor who loved to travel and volunteer in his community, including with the Men of Charity of St. James Church. He was also a landscape painter and an avid Notre Dame sports fan.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, July 28, 2024, with buriel the following day. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the St. James Men of Charity. Details can be found in his obituary. https://gcfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/4119/Joseph-Lee/obituary.html
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Becky Berry (Creswell)
Manning, as he was known to those who knew him after his professional career began, was a neighbor of good friends of ours in Basking Ridge (N.J.), where we live. About five years ago, he and his wife, Julie, and my husband, Carroll and I were at a party at our friends' house and we began chatting with them. They mentioned they had just returned from a trip to visit family in Maryland. Carroll & I both chimed in that we had grown up in Maryland, Carroll in Baltimore and me in Bethesda. Manning replied that he had grown up in Bethesda, as well. The next question was "what high school did you attend?" followed by a response from each of us, "Walter Johnson." Imagine our surprise when the inevitable "What year?" was answered by us both -- "1969!"
That chance exchange at at our friends' house was followed by numerous opportunities to get to know Manning & Julie better as they were frequent visitors at our town pool. We enjoyed chatting with them about their wonderful family and their fun times babysitting their grandchildren. Manning also proudly shared photos of the beautiful landscape paintings he had created. Such a talent! Our paths also crossed as volunteers at our local AAUW book sale and the twice-yearly rummage sale sponsored by the Atlantic Visiting Nurse Association.
Always with a book in hand while relaxing at the pool and a big welcoming smile whenever we met, Manning was a wonderful person and our lives are richer from having known him. Our hearts go out to Julie and his family. He will be dearly missed.
David Roberts
I first met Manning, or “Joe,” as he was then, at the stop for the WJ bus in September 1966. We had actually lived on the same street in Kensington for three years without becoming acquainted, because he was going to Catholic school while I went to KJH. At WJ we soon became friends. We were both fans of the Washington Senators baseball team, before they decamped for Texas. We kept in touch during our college years (he at Notre Dame, myself at Kenyon College), even though my parents had moved from Kensington to Columbia. During the summers we would attend baseball games in Washington or Baltimore, sometimes with another WJ grad, Jack Snyder (where are you, Jack?). We lost touch after 1973, but then reconnected in 1980, when we discovered, through old Kensington neighbors, that we were both living in Virginia (Manning and Julie in Lake Barcroft, myself and my wife in Burke). Saw Manning’s family begin to grow. Attended the christening of one of his children. We lost touch again in the early 1990s when he moved his family to New Jersey. We made one last brief connection by email in 2019, when Manning joined the WJ-1969 website. Talked vaguely about getting together, but then came the pandemic. I am very sorry to learn of his death. It is clear that he leaves a wonderful family legacy.