This is balanced by the family also containing a lopsided tendency to extreme mental illness, whether thanks to their frequent bouts of amnesia or multiple-personality disorder. In addition to being famous for their donuts and Christmas ornaments, they tend to supply the hospitals with a disproportionate number of doctors and nurses. More: The DiMera family, Salem’s super villains While never criminal empires like the DiMera or Kiriakis clans, they have had their share of dark horses. The family has generally stood, if implausibly, as the more wholesome of the small city’s central families.

Tom Horton’s (Macdonald Carey) voice still greets viewers to each new episode as the sands fall through the hourglass during the introduction. Renée resented Lee for lying to her and she couldn't bear that and left town.Ever since Days of our Lives first premiered in November 1965, the Horton family has always been the first family of Salem. Now that Tony was her brother she married someone else, but then Daphne DiMera revealed that Tony wasn't really Stefano's son. When Renée read her diary she found out that Lee wasn't her sister but her mother and that her father was Stefano DiMera. Renée began dating Tony DiMera and Lee warned her to stay away from him. Lee couldn't save her marriage to Doug and he divorced her. After she had a stroke her sister Renée DuMonde came to town. Lee married Doug and kept him from his true love Julie Olson. Lee is a gold digger and she came to Salem when her boyfriend Byron Carmichael died and left his fortune to his half-brother Doug Williams.

The character was written out after Benet's suicide in 1982.

Lee DuMonde is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives portrayed by Brenda Benet from 1979 to 1982.

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