The winds of History blew Jacqueline Monnier as a Governess in Paris from the Normandy countryside under Hitler's war machine. There, she survived and met a young GI, who's ancestors, had escaped German aggression in 1752, crossing the North Atlantic Ocean from the German  Hirschburg Mountains to interior Pennsylvania. Generations moved that Dunkered Brethern Harshbarger family through the American Shenandoah to set up a mill and way community in Roanoke, Virginia for Westward expansionists. Eventually, joining the migration, they settled in Indiana, where, as one of five sons to graduate from Wabash College, GI, Leslie Lee crossed the English Channel, as part of the 1944 Allied Normandy Invasion, to free Europe from Germany's ruthless domination. As part of the 127th Hospital unit, Leslie set up and ran the main hospital's Medical Laboratory in Paris. This young man fell so much in love, having met Jacqueline, that after the American-led Allied counter-offensive pushed the Germans back, and Leslie was moved on to set up and run the Medical Laboratory in Berlin, Germany, he joined the Civil Service, following the war to marry this beautiful young woman. Thus, first born son, Philip, was figuratively born in the ashes of Germany's war capital.

Jacqueline, came into the world on August 28, 1921 in St. Germain Village and lived her early years in the family town of Montford-Sur-Risle (translated Montford on the Risle River) in the Eure District of Normandy.

She was one of seven children, born to World War One surviving French soldier, Desirė Monnier and his wife, Marthe Mutrel.

Double-crossing treaty battles between Hitler's Nazi Black Eagle and Stalin's Communist Russian Bear had progressively destroyed millions of European families. With Communists blockading Berlin to consume it, in their own post war ruthlessness, the new, Lee family escaped, again, to Indiana on the wings of the American Bald Eagle during the Berlin Airlift. There, Leslie, ran the family farm in Ladoga and bought a house across the state line in Danville, Illinois, working in the Hospital Laboratory and letting Jacqueline have all the various animals she loved to be around. From there, they had son, Alan, and moved to Orlando, Florida in 1957, to run Orange Memorial Hospital's Laboratory and have daughter, Kathi.

Jacqueline, quite the artist, also had a flair for business. In Illinois she ran a  gas station sandwich shop, where Midwestern customers fell under the spell of her delightful French accent and literal interpretations of American expressions - like finding out hot dogs were not locations where those compassionate Americans warm their K-9 companions, and "Adam and Eve on a raft and a bucket of mud", in the morning were eggs, toast and coffee.

In Orlando, Jacqueline joined the Cosmopolitan Club and volunteered as a French-speaking interpreter. Her outgoing personality blossomed at becoming involved with the Chalet du Lac Restaurant in it's heyday, greeting guests and occasionally singing French songs in the convivial atmosphere with tuxedoed waiters as they served haute cuisine dishes and champagne. As an excellent cook and baker, in her own right, she went on to purchase and run The Champs Élysées French Bakery on Orlando's South Street, where many morning croissants and pastries found their way to downtown offices. In addition to being an artist with food, Jacqueline had an eye and hand for painting three-dimensional figurines of people and animals.

When daughter, Kathi developed Breast cancer and died at age 33 in Mt, Dora, the parents became involved with the First Presbyterian Church of My Dora. Jacqueline served as deacon. Leslie served on the planning board, in time, becoming recognized as Elder Emeritus. There, they were to be found on the sanctuary's second row on the left side, driving up from their home in Apopka, as long as they could, until the wind of time plucked them, as a generation's seasoned leaves: Leslie at 93 and Jackie on August 19, 2020, less than ten days short of her 99th birthday.

As of this writing she is survived by sisters in France, Marguerite and Therese; sons - Philip and Alan; grandchildren - Sarah, Lesley, Matthew and Jason.