Obituaries

-- Patricia Sullivan

Robert Yoon Sung LeePhysician

Robert Yoon Sung Lee, 86, a retired physician and general surgeon in Alexandria and at Fort Myer's Radar Family Health Clinic, died April 2 of a heart attack at Inova Alexandria Hospital. He was a Falls Church resident and had lived previously in Arlington.

Dr. Lee was born in Kilauea, Hawaii, and studied at the University of Hawaii before graduating from Cornell University in 1944.

He received a medical degree from George Washington University in 1948 and then served as a Navy physician in Alaska from 1949 to 1951.

After a surgical internship at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Conn., and a surgical residency at Brooklyn Hospital in New York, he opened a private practice in Alexandria in the late 1950s.

Until his retirement three years ago at age 83, he also worked two times a week, from 4 p.m. until noon the next day, as a physician at Radar Family Health Clinic at Fort Myer.

His marriages to Elsie Min Lee and Edwina Shelford Lee ended in divorce.

Survivors include a daughter from his first marriage, Carol A. Lee of Sacramento, and a daughter from his second marriage, Felicia K. Lee of Falls Church; two brothers; and two sisters.