Library Colorado Plateau digital archives. The N.Y. Times obituary mentions a second husband named Eugene Busch (sic), Jr. An article in the Arizona Daily Star on June 16, 2015 includes a reprint of an article from 1959 where Mrs. Gene Bush (Katie) is interviewed in Holmdel NJ. Katie married Bush in 1958. The marriage lasted 3 years and then Katie moved to Aspen, Colorado from New Jersey in 1961. She met her "last and best husband", Edwin Carl "Brandy" Brandelius, Jr. — to whom her book Sandstone Seduction is dedicated — on a trip to Baja California. in 1968. Brandy had an emphysema and was staying at this location in Mexico when the two met. When they married Katie Lee became the step-mother to "Brandy's" children Jerilyn Lee Brandelius, Ken, Susie and John Brandelius. Brandy was a war veteran, a race car driver, announcer, and good friend of Turk Murphy. Lee noted Brandy as the prime influence on finishing and publishing her first book, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle. Brandy died in 1973 while they were married. Lee lived in Jerome, Arizona from 1971 until her death in 2017; she died in her sleep at her home there on November 1, 2017, aged 98. Lee's partner, Joey van Leeuwen, whom she met in 1979 in Australia while on a round-the-world trip, committed suicide the day after her death. Katie and Joey were cremated and their ashes were scattered on the San Juan River. Popular culture Chronicles of Lee's adventures in Baja California appear in the book Almost An Island by Bruce Berger. In 2016, a short documentary entitled Kickass Katie Lee was screened at Telluride Mountainfilm, a documentary film festival where Lee was a regular guest. Lee featured prominently in "Cry Me A River", a radio episode by The Kitchen Sisters, which explored the damming of American rivers. Lee's song, "Gunslinger", from Songs of Couch and Consultation, was translated to Swedish in 1965 and was recorded by Per Myrberg as "Skjutgalen". It also was recorded by the Limeliters on their 1961 album, The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters. This may still be available on a BMG Collectibles CD. Utah Phillips praised Katie Lee and Songs of Couch and Consultation on the 1996 album, The Past Didn't Go Anywhere on the track, "Half a Ghost Town". Discography Studio albums Spicy Songs for Cool Knights (1956) Songs Of Couch And Consultation (1957) Life Is Just