A visitation and memorial service will be held on Friday in Marietta for former Cobb Commission Chairman Tim Lee.
Lee died on Sunday at the age of 62 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
The visitation will take place from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Marietta (56 Whitlock Ave.) followed by a memorial service there at 1 p.m.
A visitation and memorial service also will take place Saturday starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Clarkesville First United Methodist Church in northeast Georgia.
Flags at Cobb County government buildings are flying at half-staff this week in Lee’s honor.
Lee represented a district in East Cobb from 2002-2010 on the Cobb Board of Commissioners, then he won a two-year term to fill the unexpired term of Sam Olens as chairman. Lee was re-elected in 2012 and the following year negotiated the deal that brought the Atlanta Braves to Cobb County and built SunTrust Park with nearly $400 million in public financing.
But he was defeated in 2016 by East Cobb resident Mike Boyce, who was critical of Lee’s handling of the deal.
In 2017 Lee took an economic development job in Habersham County. Last year he was diagnosed with cancer, and the cancer returned recently.
Lee’s family is asking that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Atlanta Braves Foundation.
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