Alison Rennie Lee Frame

Alison Rennie Lee Frame, aged 52, of Orem, Utah, passed away on Monday, February 24, 2025, surrounded by family and close friends, after a courageous five-year battle against lung cancer.

Following her USAF parents Carla (Rennie) and Alfred Patrick Lee, Jr., back and forth across the country, Alison took her first steps in 1972 in El Cajon, California. In 1976, she moved to Gainesville, Florida, with her mother and brothers, Daryl and Scott, while their father was stationed for a year in Thule, Greenland. They enjoyed swimming at the beach and in the cold water springs of Gator country when they weren’t working at her Gram Lee’s golf driving range. Another short stint, this time in wintry Denver, Colorado, bridged a return in 1978 to the South in Valdosta, Georgia, near beloved cousins and grandparents, and more outdoor adventures. Then, an assignment sent her father to Tucson, Arizona, in 1982, for her formative years of junior and senior high school. She never left her Southern roots, but she did become a woman of the West.

In Tucson, Alison excelled in every facet of her life. She loved to play the piano, sang in choral groups, and couldn’t be kept from the dance floor. She was active in her Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward, earning her Young Womanhood Recognition with fellow Laurels, and served for years in the Arizona Association of Student Councils as the student body president of Sabino High School, graduating in 1991.

Alison was a consummate athlete. She played softball, flag and powder-puff football, volleyball, basketball, track-and-field, and later in life competed in body-building events. In her junior year of high school, Alison’s volleyball and basketball teams won Arizona 4A state championships, and she was named to the all-state and all-star teams in both sports. Her prowess as a setter led her to play her freshman year of college at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, in La’ie(O’ahu). There, she was part of the Seasiders team that won the 1991 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Volleyball Championship.

Alison pursued her education with purpose and found ways to serve in her church. She served briefly in the Washington DC South Mission and loved to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ. After this pause to her studies, she returned to Brigham Young University (Provo) and completed a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in physical education in 1998. She put her education to good use while working for 11 years at Hillcrest Elementary (Orem, Utah) and then 6 years as a teacher and coach to hundreds of students at Orem High School (Utah), whom she loved and who mirrored that same love back to her. She was awarded the Alpine School District 2021 Teacher Excellence Award and was awarded Teacher of the Year by her peers and students at Orem High School in 2022.

Above all, what mattered most to Alison was her family. She started with four beautiful children in her first marriage: Aubree, Gage, Zane, and Maximus Dees. She expanded her family when she married Steven Jerrold Frame in 2014. Together, they blended their four-children-each (Aubree, Isaiah, Dylan, and Josh) and added Lincoln for a bevy of nine, and now enjoy two grandchildren, Neo (Frame) and Carter (Lenon). Recently, she asked for a Black Jeep Wrangler with a lift and big tires to go back to her “tough” high school days and considered moving to a ranch for animals and open space. In the past few years, she enjoyed watching her favorite teams, planting succulents, decorating wedding receptions, gardening, arranging rock gardens, and spending time with her family in whatever amounts she could beg, borrow, and steal. She was “Steve’s woman,” and he was “her man!”

She will be deeply missed by all who encountered her, but she has moved on to other horizons where we know she will continue the same Christ-like work that marked her life here.

Funeral services will be held at 12:00 pm on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at the LDS Chapel located at 545 South 800 East, Orem, with a viewing held that morning from 9:30-11:30 am at the church prior to the services. Burial will be in the Easlawn Memorial Hills Cemetery, 4800 Eastlawn Drive (650 North), Provo, Utah.

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