Cameron Michele Kukua-Lee

June 24, 1982 – July 08, 2018. The hyphen between these dates represents a life filled with the love and light of family and friends. We received Cameron special delivery from Heaven 36 years ago and returned her to the Sender with care early last Sunday morning. We are thankful that we were chosen to cherish, love, nurture, and guide Cameron through 36 years of her worldly life. Although we are in shock and disbelief, we faithfully put our trust in God for her eternal life. During her upbringing, Cameron was an inquisitive and outgoing child, an adoring big sister, a genuine and trusted friend, an intelligent student, and a star high school volleyball player. Her life was lived doing what she wanted to do. She was kind like her mother, personable and headstrong like her father, and perpetually introspective about life. She devoted countless hours to her three beautiful daughters, family and friends. Cameron is a former graduate of Huntsville High School, Class of 2000. After high school she began college and starting working; through these years she developed loyal and lasting relationships. She was pursing her Bachelor’s Degree in Child Psychology while working as a Teacher’s Assistant/Math Tutor at Hilliard Elementary School in Houston I.S.D. God gave Cameron an invincible inner strength to face life’s challenges. Five years ago she quietly fought through the traumatic and tragic loss of her beloved 12-year old daughter, Crissa. During the past nine months, she has shown great strength and faith while cancer ravaged her body. We believe that during this nine months, God was preparing her for eternal life. Cameron cherished and protected her babies, and to the end she was defined by her most important roles as their adoring mother…and as a child of God. She was baptized and became a member of Pine Bluff Missionary Baptist Church, but was most recently united with and attending Grace Church of Humble, Texas, as a greeter. The endless outpouring of love and support from so many throughout this difficult time is evidence of what she gave in return. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Crissa Kukua-Mallet in 2013, and her grandfather, Robert Kukua in 2017. Last Sunday morning, she took flight from the pain within, carried on Crissa’s bedazzled angel wings. Cameron leaves behind two daughters who love her very much: Kirsten Kukua and Kris “Moo” Lee. She also leaves behind her parents, Rod and Karen Thomas Kukua, (step-mom Diana Kukua), her brother, Michael Kukua (wife Monica), step-brothers, Brandon Hastings and Cody Oliphant (wife Sandra), and maternal and paternal grandparents: Clarence Thomas and Judith Kukua. Her most precious family members include, “Auntie” Vicki Mills, and brothers/cousins, Chad, Markcus, and Shawn Lewis. Other special family members include, Aunt Robin Thomas Brown, Aunt Tamara Thomas, Uncle Ryan Kukua, and Uncle “Bob” Kukua, and cousins Courtney Thomas, Tiffany Brown, Rayne Howard, Saundra Seamen, and Jordan Seamen. Her very special and beloved friends include: Jacqueline Pappillion, Yvonne Brown, Christy Crawford, Tiffany Goodin, Tina Williams, Shelley Henderson Pozzi, and Cassandra Lee Hughes. She also leaves behind numerous other aunts, uncles, special cousins, and friends, and former spouse, Chris Lee and the Lee and Hightower family. Services will be held Saturday, July 14, 2018, 10am at Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home in Huntsville, Texas with interment to follow in Pine Hill Cemetery in Huntsville. Cameron’s body will be laid to rest next to Crissa’s. Cameron will lie in state Friday, July 13, from 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., with a wake from 5:00-8:00 p.m., at Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home. Condolences for the family may be left at www.shmfh.com

Cameron Michele Kukua-Lee

June 24, 1982 - July 8, 2018