Over a performing career spanning nearly 70 years, Dottie sang her way through Chicago’s lounges, supper clubs, hotels, ballrooms and country clubs. She performed for nearly three decades with pianist George Lescher in the Dottie Bee Duo and Dottie Bee Three, helped build the George Lescher Orchestra, and continued booking the orchestra after Lescher’s death until retiring professionally in 1995.
Beginning at age 58, she also worked for 36 years at Oddlie, Ltd., the Brady family antique-restoration business in Beverly, working alongside her sons and grandsons until the shop closed in 2018.
She is survived by sisters Margaret, Virginia and Jeannie; children Dan (Catherine), Alice (Ben), Tim (Dianne) and Catherine (Albert); grandchildren Sarah (James), Daniel C. (Shannon), Laura (Johnnie), Alan (Beth), Robin (Brian), Ryan, Jesse, Lorrin, and Kris; and great-grandchildren Lily, Quill, Ciaran, Jian, Dahlia, Flynn and Uriah.
Please look at Dottie Bee's history located on the following website:
https://www.claritygroup.ai/dottie-bee
Visitation will be Wednesday, August 26, from 4–8 p.m., and Thursday, August 27, from 9–11 a.m., at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W. 103rd St., Oak Lawn with funeral service at 11 a.m.
Interment will follow at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, 1400 S. Wolf Road, Hillside, Illinois, on August 27, 2026, beginning at 12:15 pm.
In lieu of flowers, please help support the music industry with a donation to one or more of the following charities...
To support future musicians:
https://meritmusic.org/
To support current working musicians:
https://jazzfoundation.org/
https://www.musiciansfoundation.org/
