Information for Ruth Iona Sales Steel
7 April 1907 - 20 January 1993
From The Idaho Press-Tribune
January 1993
Contributed by Dennis McIndoo



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Ruth Steel

      Ruth Iona Sales Steel, 85, of Parma, died Wednesday, January 20, 1993, at home of natural causes.  Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 25, 1993, at Kirkpatrick Memorial Community Church, Parma.  Rev. Ralph Marshall will officiate.  Private interment will be at Roswell Cemetery.  Services are under the direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel, Parma.
    Mrs. Steel was born April 7, 1907, at Park City, Montana, the daughter of Charles E. and Hattie Strampe Sales.  As a child, she moved to California and then Oregon with her parents.  In 1917 they moved to the Payette Valley and to New Plymouth in 1920.  She attended Albion Teacher's College and taught school near New Plymouth at the Willow Creek School.  She also taught in Fruitland and Boise and later in Parma.  She married John K. Steel, December 26, 1940, at Caldwell.  Mrs. Steel retired from teaching in 1973.  Mr. Steel died January 26, 1986.
    She was a member of Kirkpatrick Memorial Community Church, Parma; Golden Rule Chapter No. 31, Order of the Eastern Star, Nyssa, Ore.; Ruby Rebekah Lodge No. 49, Parma; Iris Temple, Daughters of the Nile and the Syringa Club.
    She is survived by a son, Robert and Debbie Steel; a daughter, Catherine and Bruce Pusey; and four grandchildren, Brenda Steel, Melissa Pusey, Jonathan Pusey and Robert Steel Jr.; and a sister, Marceda Millage and her husband Clair.
    Memorials may be made to Kirkpatrick Community Church, Parma, or to the Fruitland Hospice Program.



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