Christina Marie Lee-Grogan passed peacefully surrounded by love. She was born on May 15, 1963 to John and Gloria Lee. She was a very talented, loving woman and was always known for having the biggest smile and loudest laugh. She provided motherly love to all who needed it. Her greatest joys in life were nature, insects, birds, hiking, gardening, and always being surrounded by and participating in making music.
Christina had many different careers, including owning her own catering business and food truck, working with a traveling theater for the Arkansas Arts Center, and one of the great passions of her life, being a nurse.
She spent her time as a CNA and administrator of a nursing home, and a social worker in a group home for developmentally disabled adults. She was also a nurse at a cancer center and volunteered with the elderly. She was a psychiatric counselor with adolescents for 15 years, ten of those on site and another five in an off-site treatment center. She spent many years caring for her six children.
Later in life her hobby became restoring and renovating historical buildings, one of which became her business, the Polo Historic Wedding Chapel, in which she held wedding ceremonies and helped numerous couples achieve their “happily ever after.”
She always loved learning and was proud to graduate in 2014 at the age of 52 with a 4.0 GPA.
Christina is survived by four brothers, Dennis, Bryan, Jeff and Randy Lee; her spouse, James O’Connor; son Christian and wife, Elizabeth, along with his brothers, Aaron and Ivan Grogan; daughter Jennifer and husband, Fidel, and Jennifer’s sisters Tara and Micaela O’Connor; and two grandchildren Diego and Esperanza.
Circle of Life Hospice did a wonderful job and we cannot thank them enough for all of their help.
“I had my first job at 14 as a paper route girl. My mother always told me a life filled with love and hard work would bring a person all they wished they ever had wanted and now I have it, six beautiful kids.” Christina Marie Lee Grogan