Ananh "Lee" Saenviley
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Ananh "Lee" Saenviley pictured center right accompany Royal Lao Veterasns at Fort Snelling All Airborne Circle Memorial Day 2020
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Ananh "Lee" Saenviley pictured center right with Lao Airborne leadership in North Carolina 2019
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Funeral Services for
Ananh "Lee" Saenviley
will be held on
Saturday, July 12th 2025
12:00 noon
At Washburn McReavy Funeral Home Capel and Cemetery,
Crystal Lake, Minnesota
3816 Penn Avenue North, Minneapolis Minnesota 55412
Ananh "Lee" Saenviley
will be held on
Saturday, July 12th 2025
12:00 noon
At Washburn McReavy Funeral Home Capel and Cemetery,
Crystal Lake, Minnesota
3816 Penn Avenue North, Minneapolis Minnesota 55412
CPT Ananh “Lee” Saenviley suddenly passed into history July 1, 2025.
Lee, as we all new him was a soft spoken dedicated friend to all who knew him with special fellowship with his veteran friends from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and the United States.
He served as the President of the Royal Lao Airborne, Minnesota Chapter, and The Royal Lao Armed Forces Representative and Board Member to the CAVWV, Coalition of Allied Afghan and Vietnam War Veterans. He was active in all Coalition legislation initiatives in both Minnesota and Washington DC. He was an active volunteer and supporter of the Lao Buddhist Temple in Forest Lake, MN.
Lee served in the Royal Lao armed Forces and Special Guerrilla Units, Military Region 3, Savannakhet, Laos during the Vietnam Conflict and the “Secret War” in Laos.
He continued to serve his country defending freedom from communist aggression after the American withdrawal form Laos in 1975. He performed clandestine missions along the Thailand and Lao border He assisted in running arms via President Ronald Reagan to those who continued to fight the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communists until the United Nations brokered a peace agreement with all waring factions in Cambodia and Laos. Lee made his last “Jump” last year while training with the Royal Lao Airborne and United States Military in North Carolina at age 67.
He emigrated to the United States in 1989 and became a naturalized citizen of The United States of America.
He is survived by his wife, two children.
Lee will be dearly missed and not forgotten.