William M. Steer (1936)

REED, STEER

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:32

Des Moines Tribune
Des Moines, Iowa
Friday, January 24, 1936
Page 11, Columns 4 & 5

Steer Rites Slated Here

Former Resident Dies in California

Funeral services for William M. Steer, 78, a former Des Moines resident who died Wednesday, Jan 8, at San Diego, Cal., will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Dunn’s funeral home. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery. The Rev. W. L. Ewing, pastor of Grace Methodist church, will have charge of the service.

Mr. Steer lived in California and at the time of his death was in San Diego where he suffered a broken elbow and severe hand lacerations in an automobile accident. Funeral services were also held in Pasadena Jan 15. He is survived by his widow and one son, Earl Steer, Washington, D. C. Three grandchildren also survive.
_______________________

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 30, 1936
Page 2, Column 1

County Briefs – Truro

Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Creger and Mrs. Bradie Phillips attended the William Steer funeral in Des Moines Saturday.

Mr. Steer located here some forty years ago when he put in a lumber yard here and -------. He started Truro’s first newspaper, the Truro Enterprise and the first telephone to be through ------- was from Van ----- to Truro. Later it was expanded on to Winterset where it was ------- to the Bell Telephone company for twenty-five years and is a part of the system now.

The first automobile to come to Truro was bought by him and we have been told that it was the first in the county. It was William Speer an J. W. Likens that Truro’s private bank was put in operation and later organized as the Truro Savings bank.
_______________________

Transcriber's note: The Winterset News article was extremely distorted for about ten lines accounting for the words that could not be transcribed. The deceased appeared in Madison County censuses in 1895 and 1900.