Clara Louise (Whitmore) Steele (1931)

STEELE, WHITMORE

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 10/20/2006 at 16:58:22

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 9, 1931
Page 5

MORTUARY

Clara Louise Steele

Clara Louise Whitmore Steele was born in Chicago October 22, 1854. Her father was a Civil Engineer and died when she was seven years old, after which she lived for a number of years in Washington, D. C., with an uncle, who was a naval officer.

She attended the same private school in Washington that General U. S. Grant’s children attended, and later went to the Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This was the first girls school established in the United States. She specialized in voice and piano and after coming to Winterset, as a young lady gave music lessons.

In 1878 she married James Putnam Steele and they lived in Winterset the whole of their married life. Together they joined the Presbyterian church and she has been a faithful member for many years.

Two children were born, Byram W. Steele of Denver, Colorado, and Louise Steele Johnson of Teakoma, Oklahoma.

After a prolonged illness, she passed away at her home in Winterset April 2, 1931.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 9, 1931
Page 1, Column 7

Mrs. J. P. Steele

Last rites were held Saturday afternoon at the J. P. Steele home for Mrs. Clara Louisa Steele whose death occurred April 1 after a prolonged illness. The Rev. Paul M. Fowler, pastor of the Presbyterian church conducted the services; burial was in the Winterset cemetery.

Following this introductory paragraph, the rest of this obituary is basically identical to the one published in the Madisonian except for date of death.
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Coordinator's note: Per her Iowa Death Certificate, she died on April 1st.

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