Mikaela Anne Monsevais

Mikaela Anne Monsevais (Lee) was born June 19th in the year of the Lord 1999 in Alice, TX on a beautiful Saturday morning. She was welcomed into the world by her mother, Roxanne Barker and father, James Thomas Lee III, surrounded by loving family who anxiously awaited her arrival. She was a very spirited and curious little girl with the combined stubbornness of both of her parents and a determination to break them like wild horses, and at times she quite nearly succeeded, all while running around on her tiptoes! Mikaela looked up to her big brother Matthew and always wanted to do everything she saw him doing which contributed to her tomboyish persona early on despite her mom’s efforts to fashion her into a girly girl. As she grew older, Mikaela blossomed into a beautiful young woman with a zest for life and the sassy but sweet attitude that all who knew and loved her came to know her for. Mikaela was, what many people would call, an old soul in a youthful body. Although her life began in Alice, she and her brother also lived in Austin with their mother for some time and with both parents in San Antonio before settling back into South Texas with their dad in her teens. It was here that Mikaela graduated from Alice High School in 2017 and started her life as a young adult, working at Big House Burgers, where she met the love of her life and future husband, Tory Monsevais. The young couple lived together for a number of years and had 3 beautiful children together, which led her to decide to make him an honest man and become his wife on March 23, 2024. Her family was finally complete and legit. She was an amazing mother who cherished and adored her children and a genuinely beautiful person who loved hard, at times to a fault. Anyone who got close to Mikaela loved her and she let them know that she loved them with kind gestures and the generosity that she so selflessly bestowed upon her family and friends… Mikaela loved music and good food, spending time with her family and friends, fishing with her brothers, playing video games with her husband, children, brothers and friends, singing karaoke with her dad, and she dreamt of becoming a nurse one day, and planned to pursue that dream after her little family’s planned move to Colorado, which was to take place in the coming weeks. Unfortunately, on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, in the year of the Lord 2025, at approximately 10:30 pm tragedy struck, and Mikaela’s life was abruptly cut short, her voice silenced, her dreams never to be realized. The world lost a truly beautiful young woman, both inside and out… Mikaela is preceded in death by her maternal grandparents Rocky Barker and JoAnne Barker and her paternal grandparents James T Lee II and Catherine Baase-Lee. She is survived by her husband Tory Monsevais and children Salvatory Juliano Monsevais, 5, Persephone Reine Monsevais, 3, Montgomery James Monsevais, 1, all of Alice, father James T Lee III and stepmom melissa Rochester-Lee of Alice, mother Roxanne Barker of Austin, brothers Matthew Lee (Brittany) of Ben Bolt, James T Lee IV of Alice, Matthew Wright (Macy) of Orange Grove, Zachariah Rochester (Tracey) of Alice, and Jordan Rochester of Alice, as well as numerous aunts, uncles and cousins from all parts of Texas and beyond. Visitation for family and friends will be held at Roberson Funeral Home in Alice, TX at 2:00 pm on Thursday, February 20th, in the year of the Lord 2025, to be followed by a celebration of life at 4:00 pm. Pastor John Fieck of Agua Dulce Baptist Church will speak at her memorial service, with friends and family encouraged to share stories from her life afterwards. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, please donate either to the Gofundme set up by James T Lee III or directly to Tory Monsevais for their relocation to Colorado. Any help with their sad new beginning would be immensely helpful and greatly appreciated. A visitation will be held Thursday, February 20, 2025 from 2PM to 4PM with a funeral service to be held at 4PM in the Roberson Funeral Home Chapel. Services will conclude in the chapel. Services entrusted to Roberson Funeral Home Alice.

Mikaela Anne Monsevais

June 19, 1999 - February 14, 2025