Retired priest, the Reverend Father Easton Lee, who also served as a
broadcaster, actor and theatre director, died Monday morning in Florida after a brief illness. He was 89.
Lee was born in Wait-a-Bit, Trelawny, on February 19, 1931 to a Chinese father, Henry, and a Jamaican mother, Ercie. He spent his early years in Siloah, St Elizabeth where he attended Siloah Primary, Duncans Primary and Windsor high schools.
According to Lee’s biography which is posted on the National Library of Jamaica website, after leaving high school, he joined the Caribbean Thespians Dramatic Society, at the time the leading group of its kind in Jamaica. He soon established himself as a major acting talent. This interest was broadened and enhanced when he went to work with the Jamaica Social Welfare Commission, now Social Development Commission, a job which took him to every corner of the country.