G. Lee Coy (Gregory to those who didn’t know him), was born on 22 August 1957 to Andrew (Andy) Jr. and Arta Hendrickson Coy, passing away suddenly on 24 March 2026, at his home in Orem, Utah, surrounded by family and friends.

Lee lived a life of devotion and forward motion, whether delivering newspapers, running cross country trails, jumping hurdles, navigating C-130’s, creating with wood or caring for family and friends. He always wanted to be “a player in the game of life”. Shortly after graduating from Shorecrest High School, Lee traveled across the Pacific to serve the Lord in the Japan Tokyo Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where for two years he developed a life-long love of the language, food, and culture of the Japanese people, all while getting to teach those he met about his belief in and love for the Lord Jesus Christ and His Gospel. After his mission, Lee attended Brigham Young University where he was on the Ballroom Dance Bronze Team, sweeping the love of his life and eternal companion, Linda Bingham, off her feet by getting engaged and marrying that same semester. Upon graduation with degrees in Business Management and Industrial Education, Lee joined the military and took his life of motion to new heights by becoming a navigator for the US Air Force (finishing top in his class). Lee later went on to get advanced degrees in Human Resource Development and a Graphic Arts Degree.

As a couple, Lee and Linda lived a life of adventure, traveling around the world during their 22 years in the Air Force, ending up in Alaska where he retired as a Major. While in the military, he logged over 2,000 flight hours, receiving numerous medals. Lee went on countless TDY’s (temporary duties) as well as working as a tactics officer and radar navigator during the Panama Invasion and crewing one of the first planes into the arena of the 1st Gulf War (Desert Shield/Desert Storm) and then providing tactical support.

After retiring from the military, Lee took on even bigger projects of building houses and developing three subdivisions before moving (2007) to Utah in order for Linda to finish her degree at BYU. Lee was a creator and fine craftsman, quick to find a woodshop or create one out of his garage and driveway. His creativity was boundless as he built dressers, bunk beds, dipnets and hundreds of ornaments, puzzles, wooden ties, salt/pepper shakers, cutting boards, shadow boxes and more recently updating their home, all while making use of his love for specialty woods and special touches. It is rare to find anyone among friends or family who aren’t a recipient of his work. He began volunteering in and later teaching wood shop at Mountain View High School, followed later by part-time work at Lehi High School where he found great satisfaction helping his students make their creative dreams a reality.

Although Lee and Linda moved from Alaska, Lee’s heart was still partly there. He was an expert fisherman and loved providing fishing experiences for all he came across, whether indirectly helping by demonstrating how to do it or taking an active part in creating the experience for others. During a small window of opportunity, Lee and Linda accepted a call to be Military Relations Representatives for the Church at JBER in Alaska, where Lee actively combined both his love of fishing and of the Gospel to help military members and their families.

A hard worker with a brilliant mind, Lee was always wanting to create as much as he could and loved engineering the most efficient way to do anything he set himself to do. You rarely would find him only doing one thing - as he was capable of everything he set his mind to and loved testing his limits, evidenced by the number of radio hosts and Lowes Pro Savings day’s workers who knew him by name from all the prizes he won. Perhaps the most notable characteristic was his wit and humor. A word smith of the highest order, “anything that could be taken wrong would be”, which he called “Lee’s Law”. He loved seeing people connect through smiles and laughter.

Everything Lee did was with a desire to be of service to others, with his greatest love (and the most often recipients of his service) being his family. He would do anything and everything he could (from big to small) for Linda and their children: Christopher Lee (Jillayne Lowe), Bradly Bingham (Meredith Kearsley), Carolee (Britton Beckham), Andrew Benjiman (Ann Passey), Gregory Lee, Jr. (Amelia Humes), Eliana, plus 14 grandchildren. Included in his love and care were his mother, sisters Starr and Candi, and the many nephews, nieces, cousins, brothers and sisters-in-law, who will all miss him terribly. Lee was blessed with amazing faith and love of the Lord, Jesus Christ, inviting all to prepare for His return. He worked tirelessly to help build Zion. At the time of his passing, Lee was serving as 2nd Counselor of the Lakeview 2nd Ward Bishopric.

Lee is preceded in death by his oldest son, Christopher Lee, his father Andrew (Andy) Benjiman, and his sisters Franziska May and Mavis Rose.

"God be with you till we meet again."