Faith Hope Miller Lee

Lee, Faith Hope Miller
Faith Hope Miller Lee, 85, passed away Sunday, April 10, in Phoenix, AZ. Faith was born December 2, 1925, in Steubenville, OH, to Raymond and Helene Miller. Faith was the youngest of three precocious daughters. At 19, she was stationed at Hickham Field in Honolulu working as a "Rosie the Riveter" aircraft mechanic, and a ballroom dance instructor. Faith had many interests. She was president of the astronomy club in Orlando, a HAM radio operator, an avid traveler visiting almost every country in the world, and a student of languages. She taught in public schools in Florida, Nevada, and Arizona. She attended George Washington University, Muskingdom College, University of Hawaii, Ohio State University, where she met and married Raymond Marvin Lee, Jr, Orlando Junior College (AA), Tulane University, and Arizona State University (BS, MS), where she was the first woman to graduate from Arizona State University in Electrical Engineering. Faith spent many years working as an engineer for Motorola in Phoenix and East Kilbride, Scotland, researching radiation hardening of integrated circuits, and participating in the design of the first Macintosh computer. She was one of Motorola's first female engineers. She also worked at RCA in New Jersey, and Societa Generale Semiconduttori in Italy. Faith is predeceased by her parents, and husband, Raymond Lee, an acoustical contractor in Phoenix, AZ. She is survived by her two sisters, Marie Hubert of Cheyenne, WY, (both pilots, Faith and Marie flew across the country in a Piper Cub in 1945, landing on highways and refueling at gas stations due to the paucity of private airports at that time) and Rosemary DePue of Silver Springs, MD, her two daughters, Sherry Gamble of Phoenix, AZ, and Cindy Lee of Setauket, NY, her son, Raymond Lee of Cody, WY, as well as two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Befitting her outsize personality and impact on many people, a memorial service will be held in July in Cape Canaveral, FL, where her ashes will be launched into space.