Mrs. HENRY V. (Ethel Clark) STEELE 1895-1983

STEELE, FITZGERALD, CLARK BERNHARDT, HARRIS, GOODYEAR

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Date: 2/17/2005 at 19:52:06

A funeral mass for Mrs. Ethel Steele was conducted Friday, May 6, 1983 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Bridget Catholic Church in Postville, by the Reverend A. A. McAvoy and concelebrated by the Reverend Dennis Juhl. The Schutte Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in St. Peter's Catholic Cemetery in Clermont.

Ethel Steele, daughter of Will F. and Anna (Fitzgerald) Clark, was born October 14, 1895 at Postville, Iowa. She passed away May 3, 1983 at Community Memorial Hospital in Postville.

She was graduated from the Postville School in 1913 and taught school in this area for three years. On November 7, 1916 she was married to Henry V. Steele. They lived their entire life in the Postville area.

She is survived by a brother, Dr. Thomas D. Clark of Hills, Iowa, two nephews, Thomas B. Clark of Iowa City, and Robert Bernhardt of Everly, IA, two nieces, Marjory Harris of Long Lake, MN and Mrs. David (Mary Sue) Goodyear of Buffalo, MN, seven great-nephews and nieces and four great-great-nephews and nieces. Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, Henry, who died January 22, 1955 and a sister, Irene.

-source: Postville Herald clipping from my mother's obituary collection. Contributed by Mary Durr