Nov 19 2014
Alice Lee, sister of, and gatekeeper for her sister Harper Lee (aged 88), died Monday. She was 103. According to AL.com Lee "was also celebrated as a trailblazer, one of the few women who practiced law in Alabama before World War II, and a church leader.... In 2012, at the age of 100, she was the oldest attorney still practicing law in Alabama."
Alice said that she modeled her career on that of her father, Mr. Amasa Coleman Lee, who was also the model for Atticus Finch in her sister's only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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