Born at Liverpool, England on 4 June 1880, son of Lee Fletcher (1856-1905) and Rosella Miller (1858-1930), he came to Winnipeg in 1904 and worked for the Claydon Construction Company before having his own building firm until retirement in 1951. On 30 October 1912, he married Jane Greenfield (1888-1978) at Winnipeg and they had four children: Ruth Verna Fletcher (1913-1953), Robert Lee “Bob” Fletcher (1915-1984), Jocelyn “Joyce” Fletcher (1919-?, wife of Frank H. Smith), Audrey Fletcher (1926-2002, wife of Richard Louis Sullivan). He died at his Winnipeg residence, 237 Jefferson Avenue, on 12 November 1964 and was buried in the Kildonan Presbyterian Cemetery.
Some of his construction work in Manitoba included:
Building
Location
Year
Status
959 Main Street, Winnipeg
1909
Fort Garry Tire Garage and Service Station
208 Fort Street, Winnipeg
1928
Demolished (?)
Wertleb Grocery (addition)
448 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg
1928
176 Fort Street, Winnipeg
1929-1930
Curran House [G. Curran]
125 Cathedral Avenue, Winnipeg
1930
Misericordia General Hospital Nurses’ Residence (alterations)
753 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg
1930
Marriage registration [Lee Fletcher, Jennie Greenfield], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Ruth Verna Fletcher, Robert Lee Fletcher, Joycelyn Fletcher], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Winnipeg permits $1,405,000 ahead of last season,” Manitoba Free Press, 5 May 1928, page 53.
“Fine new super service station now open for business,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 July 1928, page 8.
“Building permits advance to high figures for 1928,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 August 1928 page 17.
“Permits issued for 14 Houses, making total 89,” Manitoba Free Press, 26 April 1930 page 29.
“Great programme of construction in Winnipeg,” Manitoba Free Press, 26 July 1930, page 18.
“Smith-Fletcher bridal held in Kildonan United Church,” Winnipeg Tribune, 26 July 1943, page 34.
Obituary [Ruth Verna Fletcher], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 June 1953, page 32.
“Deaths,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 November 1964, page 31.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 November 1964, page 26.
Obituary [Jane Fletcher], Winnipeg Free Press, 2 October 1978, page 141.
Obituary [Robert L. Fletcher], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 December 1984, page 48.
Obituary [Audrey Sullivan], Winnipeg Free Press, 25 May 2002.
Lee Fletcher, FindAGrave.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 February 2025
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