A funeral service for Lee Morse, husky-voiced blues singer whose sultry treatment of torch songs made her one of the top women vocalists of the 1920s and '30s, will be held Monday at 10:00am at the Loncone (?) Funeral Home, 850 Plymouth Ave, N.

She died unexpectedly early yesterday (Dec. 16, 1954) while visiting a neighbor.

As Mrs. Ray Farese, she lived in relative obscurity in recent years at 1 Strathallan Pk.

But at one time she was a top attraction, a leading record seller and a drawing card at clubs and theaters across the land.  That was back before bop, back beyond the days of swing.  They called it jazz then.  And jazz was what Lee Morse sang in her low, husky voice with its amazing range and subtle verve.  The roaring 20s liked it.  At that time she had made more records than any other woman vocalist in history.

She made records with a band of five musicians.  They called themselves Lee Morse and Her Blue Grass Boys.  It was quite a band.  There was a great trumpeter named Manny Klein, the late Eddie Lang on guitar and two brothers who played clarinet and trombone named Jimmy ad Tommy Dorsey.

She married Bob Downey, the pianist.  After starring in Broadway in several musicals, she and her husband went to Texas and opened a night club.  When the club burned down, she and her first husband started a national comeback tour.

But a "strep" throat contracted in Chicago in 1935 cut the comeback short.  She thought she might never sing again.  But her voice came back.

She came here in 1939 and has lived here since.  She sang in night clubs here, and in Buffalo and Syracuse.  She was married to Farese in 1946.  Born in Oregon, she was a sister of Glen Taylor, US Senator from Idaho, who ran on the Progressive party ticket for vice president in 1948.

Besides her husband and brother, she leaves a son, Jack Morse of San Francisco; four other brothers, E.K. Taylor of Missoula, Mont.; Paul Taylor of Les Gaton, Calif.; and Terris and Slade Taylor of Los Angeles, Calif. and one sister, Mrs. Eleanor Blondin, of Oklahoma City, Okla.  Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery.