Lee Jacky died on July 16, 2025, at his home on Vashon Island.
He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on April 29, 1953. The family moved to Seattle in 1957. Lee graduated from Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines, Washington, in 1971. He served in the US Army from 1973 to 1975 and did tours in Korea and Alaska. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1980.
He worked as a surveyor for Seattle from 1982, until his retirement in 2013, first for City Light and then for the Parks Department. He married Megan Murray in 1986, and they moved to Vashon Island. They divorced in 1992.
Lee loved the outdoors and was an avid fisherman. He had a lifelong circle of friends in Des Moines and on Vashon.
Lee is survived by his brothers Jonathan and Mitchell, his niece Samantha, and her dau