Berm C. Lee

Berm C. Lee, 78, a longtime resident of Westport, Connecticut, passed peacefully after a brief illness on September 26, 2026. He was born in Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea on May 16, 1948 as the youngest child of Moo Ock Lee, the head of Gyeongsangbuk-do security forces and a national hero, and Young Soo Park. Both parents are buried at Daejeon National Cemetery, a burial site reserved for Korean veterans. Berm completed his higher education at Technische Universität Berlin in Berlin, Germany. He earned his Master’s degree (Diplom-Ingenieur) in 1978 and his Ph.D. (Doktor-Ingenieur) in mechanical and chemical engineering in 1981. He worked at Babcock-Brown Boveri Reaktor GmbH in Mannheim, Germany before immigrating with his young family to the United States, landing in Connecticut. He worked at Northeast Electronics in Milford, Connecticut starting in 1984 until his retirement in 2020. Berm married wife Helen in 1979 and with her raised two children, Caroline and Bonnie, in Westport, Connecticut. Berm is survived by his wife, children, and two siblings. Funeral services were held at Fairfield Grace United Methodist Church and he was laid to rest at Willowbrook Cemetery in Westport, Connecticut.