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Services for John K. Steel, 75, Parma, who died Sunday, Jan.
26, in a Nyssa hospital of natural causes. will be held at 2
p.m. Wednesday at the Dakan Funeral Chapel, Parma.
The Rev. Paul F. Evans of the Kirkpatrick Memorial
Presbyterian Church of Parma will officiate. Interment
will follow in the Roswell Cemetery.
Mr. Steel was born Dec. 18, 1910, at Fayetteville, Ark., to
Alvin and Ethel Keifer Steel. He moved to the Roswell
area in 1913 with his family. He graduated from Parma
High School and Idaho State University at Pocatello.
He married Ruth Sales on Dec. 26, 1940, at Caldwell. He
worked for Guy F. Atkinson Construction and traveled and lived
in various places. He had farmed in Roswell since 1948
and retired from farming in 1971. He was a 50-year
member of the Parma Masonic Lodge No. 49, AF&AM, and a member
of the El Korah Shrine.
He is survived
by his wife of Parma; a son and daughter-in-law, Robert and
Deborah Steel of New Plymouth; a daughter and son-in-law,
Catherine and Bruce Pusey of Pocatello; a foster sister, Jean
Jensen of Albany, Ore.; and four grandchildren.
Friends may call at the chapel in Parma from 6 to 8 tonight.
Memorials may be made to the Shriners Crippled Children's
Hospital or a favorite charity in care of the Dakan Funeral
Chapel of Caldwell, P.O. Box 1386, Caldwell. |
