Dr. Elizabeth Anne Dutson Gee, wife of Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee, died at her home, December 17, 1991. She was 46 years of age.
Elizabeth was born September 15, 1945, in Los Angeles, California. She married E. Gordon Gee, August 26, 1968, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Dr. Gee had been battling a recurrence of cancer since last March. She had faced similar bouts in 1987 with breast cancer while her husband was president of the University of Colorado. At Ohio State, Dr. Gee was an associate professor in the Educational Policy and Leadership Department of the College of Education, and an associate to the vice-president for University Development. While at Ohio State, Dr. Gee's work concentrated on research in the area of women's professional development and gender issues that related to professional ethics.A native of Utah, Dr. Gee received her B.A. from the University of Utah in 1968, her M.A. in history from Brigham Young University in 1979, and her Ed.D. in higher education administration from West Virginia University.
In 1974, she served as a staff assistant to
Georgia Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, and in 1975, was a legislative assistant to Utah Sen. Jake Garn. From 1983 to 1985, she served as executive director of Ethics West Virginia, a statewide ethics program coordinated through all West Virginia colleges and universities. From 1985 to 1987, she was interim executive director of the Center for Human Caring, School of Nursing, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In 1986, she held an appointment as a lecturer in the University of Colorado School of
Nursing, later being named an adjunct assistant professor at the school from 1987 to 1990. The author of more than 40 papers, journal articles and presentations, Dr. Gee was a member of several honorary societies, among them Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta Pi, and Phi Delta Kappa. She had served on the board of directors for The Hastings Center for Ethics
and Life Sciences since 1986, was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mormon History and a referee for the Western Historical Quarterly.
She is survived by her husband, E. Gordon Gee, and their daughter, Rebekah Elizabeth; her parents, Mrs. Lucy C. Taylor and step-father, Mr. Frank W. Taylor; brother, Keith C. Dutson; a stepsister, Mrs. Lawrence (Carolyn) Harmon; stepbrother, Mr. William F. Taylor; mother-in-law, Mrs. Vera S. Gee; and sister-in-law, Mrs. Malcolm (Cherie) F. Justice, Jr. She was preceded in death by her father, Keith Clinton Dutson.
Funeral services were held Friday, December 20, 1991, in Columbus, Ohio. Memorial services will be held Monday, December 23, 1991, 12 noon, at the Monument Park Stake Center, 1320 South Wasatch Drive (2400 East). Friends may call at the Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary, 2350 East 1300 South, Sunday evening 6-8 p.m., and at the Stake Center on Monday, 10:45 am to 12 noon. Interment, Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Elizabeth D. Gee Fund at Ohio State University, Development Fund Dept. 0811, P.O. Box 16579, Columbus, Ohio 43216.
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