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Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken at 902 S. Sheridan Road. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World
Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken will close at the end of the month after 42 years doing business at 902 S. Sheridan Road.
"Since my grandfather and mother passed away we have found extra debts we didn't know we had," said Lucinda Whitworth, granddaughter of the founder. "They are sizable, so it isn't feasible for us to keep it going.
"Of course, there always is the possibility someone could buy the license from us or someone would want to give us a whole bunch of money, but otherwise our last day will be the 31st."
Whitworth and her sister, Samantha Bonfitto, have been running the restaurant since their mother, Shirley Whitsorth, died in an auto accident last November.
Their grandfather, Victor Ray, who brought Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken to Tulsa in the spring of 1970, died in February 2011.
The Tulsa location is the only Oklahoma site for a Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken.
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