Bucksport, Maine - What little bit of growing up David did started December 27, 1939, in Glendale, West (by God) Virginia, as the well loved only child of William A. Kee and Eleanor M. (Dunlap) Kee. David William Kee died on June 17, 2026.

He lived in McMechen, WV, until age 17, and graduated without distinction from the local high school, Benwood Union. He moved on to West Virginia University, majored in fraternity life and latched onto a couple of scholarships to attend and graduate from West Virginia University College of Law in 1966.

When he wasn't aimlessly wandering and polluting the streets of Bucksport, Maine, or Sarasota, Florida, with cigar smoke, David was honored and privileged to serve his nation, adopted state of Maine, county, town and profession. He was a captain and special agent in the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (not a spy); appointed to three 5-year terms as a Maine Human Rights Commissioner; appointed to the Governor's Substance Abuse Services Commission; twice elected Hancock County Prosecuting Attorney; advocate, board member and counsel for the Next Step Domestic Violence Project of Hancock County; a professor of Admiralty Law at Maine Maritime Academy, trustee of the Buck Memorial Library, and elected to serve three terms on Bucksport Town Council.

David was a founding partner of Fellows, Kee, Tymoczko & Lewis, which became the best (and for many years, only) law firm in Bucksport. He was elected president of the Maine State Bar and was the first director of the Maine Assistance Program for Lawyers and Judges, created by the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine to respond to mental health and substance abuse issues in the legal profession. The Maine State Bar Association recognized David for his service with its most prestigious honor, the John W. Ballou Award.

Several forays into marital bliss produced three loving and wonderful children, Christopher Kee of North Hampton, New Hampshire, Kimberly Kee (Peter Maher) of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Jason Kee of Sarasota, Florida. He has been graced with four wonderful grandchildren as well, Stephanie Kee, Dustin Kee, Cameron Maher and Nathanael "Nate the Great" Kee, all of whom have turned out great, in part due to David early on serving more as a warning than an example.

He was a proud and grateful member of Alcoholics Anonymous for more than 44 years.

For more than 44 years his wife, Paula, was willing to share her amazing existence with him as the world's greatest, most insightful and loveliest traveling companion, the true center of his universe.