Obituary of Lee G. Lacquement

Norman Dean Home for Services 16 Righter Avenue Denville, New Jersey 07834 (973) 627-1880 Star Ledger 1x Sunday Daily Record 1x Sunday Neighbor News Lee Graham-Lacquement, 82, retired Mountain Lakes teacher, taught 4th-grade language arts at Wildwood School for 25 years. Her innovations included introducing 4th graders to Shakespeare, staging an annual medieval banquet with both students and “serving wenches” (mothers) in medieval costumes, and having students impersonate historical figures, in costume, for oral-report “living biographies.” She used her sabbatical leave to observe open-classroom teaching in schools from coast to coast. She used the $3,000 grant from her “teacher of the year” award to equip Wildwood’s library with its first computer. In retirement, she joined her second husband Larry, exhibiting antiques in weekend shows form Boston to Baltimore and as far west as Iowa. They specialized in schoolgirl needlework pictures and samplers, quilts and coverlets, blue and white spongeware and stoneware. She was a lifelong Methodist and for many years, an active hospice volunteer. In recent years, lupus, lung problems and dementia made her semi-invalid. She died October 8th in St. Clare’s, Denville. Her memorial service will be at 12 noon on Saturday, November 20th at Denville Community United Methodist Church, 190 Diamond Spring Road Denville, NJ 07834. In lieu of flowers, Lee’s family suggests donations to the Lupus Foundation of America, NJ Chapter, PO Box 1184 Springfield, NJ 07081.