Dolly Lee Williams Breece

Dolly Lee Williams was born in 1888, in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Dolly Lee Breece was active in Woman's Club and civic activities.

She was a member of the Delphian Society.

In 1946 she was elected board member of the Christian Kent Day Nursery.

Dolly Lee Breece moved to New Mexico in 1919 and lived at 809 W. Copper Avenue and then 1401 Roma Avenue NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 1919 she married Col. George Elmer Breece (died January 23, 1942), former mayor of Charleston, West Virginia. At the time Dolly Lee Williams was a widow living in Charleston and Colonel Breece was a widower as well.

At the death of her husband in 1942, Breece was sued by the Breece Lumber Co. to void a transfer of 2000 shares of the company from George E. Breece, at the time company president, to his wife. The suit also sought an accounting of dividends, amounting to about $16,000 ($249,220.13 in 2017), which the company claimed were paid to Breece on the stock. The company asked further for the voiding of action by which a joint bank account was set up by George E. Breece for him and his wife, and that Breece be required to pay to the executors the $27,894.82 she withdrew from the account.In 1944 District Judge Henry G. Coors ruled that Breece was the owner of the 2000 shares and of the balance in the Breeces' joint bank account. She was also granted $6,000 bequeathed to her by George E. Breece's will.

In 1952 Dolly Lee Breece married a third time to C.C. Bacon, prominent Carlsbad, New Mexico, business man who owned the Bacon Motor Co, a Packard agency. Active in civic and political affairs, Bacon was one of the electors named by New Mexico to cast the ballot in the Electoral College for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

She died in 1981 and is buried at Sunset Memorial Park, Albuquerque.