Wilma Dee

E. James Reese Funeral Home

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The family of WILMA GEORGIA DEE are saddened to announce her passing on Thursday, July 31st. Wilma is survived by her daughter Anne Frances Dee and her son Michael Edward Dee, his wife Shelly and their four children Matthew Edward, Christopher Michael, David Roney and Diana Bao Wen, and Wilma's sister Frances Duroure.

Services will be held on Thursday, August 7th at 11am at the Reese Funeral Home at 6767 Seminole Blvd, Seminole, FL (guest can arrive at 1030am). In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made in her name to Special Olympics. Online donations may be made at www.memorial-donations.org. Her daughter Anne, who has Downs Syndrome, has been a competitor in Special Olympics for over 35 years and thus Wilma saw directly how Special Olympics changed the life of her daughter. She deeply believed in Special Olympics mission to improve lives and enhance the dignity of Special Athletes around the world. 

From her son Michael:

Mom was 87 although you would never know it. More than once someone thought she was my wife! Wilma was known to all for her elegance in appearance and demeanor. She was a beautiful woman of great style, energy, compassion and wisdom. Everyone loved my mother. She was easy to be with, and was always happiest in the company of others, none more so than her family which she was so proud of and enjoyed traveling around the world to visit. London, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Rome, Florence and her favorite, Bali. And that was just since she turned 80! Everywhere she went she made friends; from the housekeeper in Bali to CEO's in Singapore, from artists in Colorado to college students in Philadelphia, hers was a rich and fully engaged life. We spoke almost daily and she would always track me down for a quick chat, whether in a desert in Chile or on a mountain in the Alps, thank goodness for Skype.

She adored her four grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was all-in when it came to family and none more so than me. She gave me everything I could have wanted and more. All those life lessons I rejected when told to me were so profound they never left and finally broke through to change my life and make me a much better person. She was relentless, but I still don't make my bed and eat liver. She was the prototype of all you could ask from your mother. She guided me effortlessly, but supported my own ideas and dreams as if they were her own. She sacrificed for me but never asked for anything in return. Her loyalty was as strong as titanium and never wavered. Even when I was not on my best behavior Mom was there for me, always, and she always will be. If you met my Mom, you would get to know me, no way around it, she was like a personal PR person. I was in the bank yesterday to close accounts and the teller said "Oh, you're Michael, your mother told me everything about you!" I'm just so happy I could make my mother proud of me and be the kind of man both her and Dad raised me to be. 

How does a son repay that depth of pure maximum strength love? I couldn't come close but I tried hard and in trying I was able to give her a lot of happiness. It fed a virtuous circle between us which only grew stronger as time went on and I began to realize just how smart and wise her advice was. She kept life simple and it was all analog, not digital. Hers was a face-to-face relationship style not our modern disintermediated electronic existence. She learned to skype and e-mail in her 80's and made good use of her cellphone but it was our time in the kitchen with her making me tea and muffins I'll treasure. She would have me fly with her to and from Singapore so she had me in a seatbelt next to her for 24 hours straight. Distance was her enemy but travel her salvation. Just in her last few months, at age 87, she was in about 15 cities including flying to Singapore to see her grandson graduate high school and visiting her grandchildren's schools, all with me strapped in next to her.

Not that we didn't have our arguments. Trying to get her to let me carry her bag in the airport was a constant battle. "I can do it just fine thank you" she would say exhibiting her fierce independence and unwillingness to rely on anyone else. Finally she would let the grandkids carry it but only if she could see it. Mom loved being independent and I believe this fierce desire fueled her efforts to stay in good physical shape (she was in great health) and mentally alert. She was proud of her life and it greatly enhanced her quality of life, which was amazing right until the end. 

No description of my mother would be complete however without discussing her figure skiing career. Since the age of 12 Mom was a skater. She was on the ice for 75 years and taught figure skating for 64 years. During this time she impacted thousands of aspiring young skaters. To this day I consistently hear that she changed their lives. For you see Mom, while a skating coach, was first and foremost an educator. She believed that skating skills and life skills were inseparable. "Any great skater", she said, "has skills which would allow them to succeed at anything." From Olympic Gold medalists to the casual recreational skater she saw figure skating as teaching the most important life lessons. "Falling is part of life", "You are being judged everyday so always present your best", "If you have discipline and are willing to make the effort your dreams will turn to reality", and "We are all unique so develop your own style, personality and character" were lessons she taught equally for the ice and for life.

I'm convinced she was so beautiful at 87 was because all those years on the ice in Montreal and Buffalo cryogenically froze her to well below her actual age. Up to last year she would still put her skates on to teach. Mom just was so happy when on the ice and she instilled that in her students and in me as well. She met my Dad in the Olympic Skating Arena in Lake Placid, and he asked her to marry him two dates later. I'm sure the short skating dress and angora sweater had nothing to do with that. She was not so easy a catch and he had to fight hard for her. When he finally won they had a wonderful life together, largely centered around skating which was a full family activity. I always thank them for picking each other to be my parents. 


Lake Placid was always special to her and I'm sure she now has a great view of Mirror Lake. To get up at 5am in the winter to go into an ice skating rink, in Buffalo, New York of all places you really had to love what you were doing...and Mom sure did. Give her five minutes and she'd take an hour telling you why figure skating is the world's greatest sport. Even in her last days she was writing an article on all that she and her sister had learned in their combined 148 years of skating. Mom never stopped teaching, it's just who she was.

I once read "if you are remembered by at least one person, you will be immortal". Mom will be remembered fondly by everyone she touched. I love my mother immensely and am happy that she is now skating on a cloud with my Dad, bending everyone's ear in heaven about her family and how proud she is of them. I have been very fortunate to have her as "my Mom" and to benefit so much from all she had to give. 


I hope those who read this will share their stories and recollections and contribute to the immortality of Wilma Dee, my Mom.

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