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Family, Friends Bury Slain North Port Mother Of 2

Sarasota Herald-Tribune photo by Ed Pfueller)

Pallbearers carry the pale blue casket of Denise Amber Lee from a funeral service at First United Methodist Church of Punta Gorda on Wednesday.

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Published: January 23, 2008

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Friends and family gathered today at a Punta Gorda church to say goodbye to Denise Amber Lee, the 21-year-old mother who disappeared from her North Port home Thursday.

Lee was found two days later, dead of a gunshot wound.

Lee's family, including her husband, Nathaniel, and their two sons, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, were seated in the first three pews of First United Methodist Church. The service began at 1 p.m. with a song version of "The Lord's Prayer."

This was the same church where couple were married three years earlier.

And this was the second emotional day of farewells for Lee's family. Hundreds of people attended a visitation Tuesday at Lemon Bay Funeral Home.

"She's an angel, but she left us with two angels," said Susan Goff, Denise's mother.

During the visitation, pictures of Lee rolled on a television screen. The snapshots included Lee as a 5-year-old sporting a red velvet dress, a 7-year-old Lee asleep in bed and clutching a teddy bear, prom pictures of high school-sweethearts Lee and the man she would marry, and Lee on a thick white rug snuggling one of her babies.

Police have charged Michael King with abducting and killing Lee. Investigators have not found any link between the pair; they say it looks like this may have been a random act of violence.

Lee was to be buried at Gulf Pines Memorial Park in Englewood.

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