Grace "Jo" Steele, 85, of Amarillo died Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd., with Bob Thomas, chaplain of Odyssey Hospice, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Steele was born March 14, 1923, in Archer City to John C. and Essie B. Bedford. She graduated from Iowa Park High School in 1941.
After graduation, she worked at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth assembling military aircraft for the World War II effort.
After the war, she married Meredith H. Steele on March 7, 1946. The resided in Amarillo, where Grace was a homemaker and loved to make quilts. She was a member and past president of High Plains Quilters Guild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Meredith Steele; and a grandson, Austin Travis Pratt-Steele.
Survivors include two sons, Bill Pratt-Steele of Canyon and Philip Steele of Woodland Hills, Calif.; four sisters, Jackie Parker of Granbury, Lou Sudduth of Tyler, Mary Hill of Sharon Springs, Kan., and Jane Tucker of Clovis, N.M.; a grandson, Jamie Pratt of Amarillo; and two great-grandchildren, Kenny and Jeremiah.
Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 28, 2008.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd., with Bob Thomas, chaplain of Odyssey Hospice, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Steele was born March 14, 1923, in Archer City to John C. and Essie B. Bedford. She graduated from Iowa Park High School in 1941.
After graduation, she worked at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth assembling military aircraft for the World War II effort.
After the war, she married Meredith H. Steele on March 7, 1946. The resided in Amarillo, where Grace was a homemaker and loved to make quilts. She was a member and past president of High Plains Quilters Guild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Meredith Steele; and a grandson, Austin Travis Pratt-Steele.
Survivors include two sons, Bill Pratt-Steele of Canyon and Philip Steele of Woodland Hills, Calif.; four sisters, Jackie Parker of Granbury, Lou Sudduth of Tyler, Mary Hill of Sharon Springs, Kan., and Jane Tucker of Clovis, N.M.; a grandson, Jamie Pratt of Amarillo; and two great-grandchildren, Kenny and Jeremiah.
Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 28, 2008.
Grace "Jo" Steele, 85, of Amarillo died Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd., with Bob Thomas, chaplain of Odyssey Hospice, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Steele was born March 14, 1923, in Archer City to John C. and Essie B. Bedford. She graduated from Iowa Park High School in 1941.
After graduation, she worked at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth assembling military aircraft for the World War II effort.
After the war, she married Meredith H. Steele on March 7, 1946. The resided in Amarillo, where Grace was a homemaker and loved to make quilts. She was a member and past president of High Plains Quilters Guild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Meredith Steele; and a grandson, Austin Travis Pratt-Steele.
Survivors include two sons, Bill Pratt-Steele of Canyon and Philip Steele of Woodland Hills, Calif.; four sisters, Jackie Parker of Granbury, Lou Sudduth of Tyler, Mary Hill of Sharon Springs, Kan., and Jane Tucker of Clovis, N.M.; a grandson, Jamie Pratt of Amarillo; and two great-grandchildren, Kenny and Jeremiah.
Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 28, 2008.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd., with Bob Thomas, chaplain of Odyssey Hospice, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mrs. Steele was born March 14, 1923, in Archer City to John C. and Essie B. Bedford. She graduated from Iowa Park High School in 1941.
After graduation, she worked at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in Fort Worth assembling military aircraft for the World War II effort.
After the war, she married Meredith H. Steele on March 7, 1946. The resided in Amarillo, where Grace was a homemaker and loved to make quilts. She was a member and past president of High Plains Quilters Guild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Meredith Steele; and a grandson, Austin Travis Pratt-Steele.
Survivors include two sons, Bill Pratt-Steele of Canyon and Philip Steele of Woodland Hills, Calif.; four sisters, Jackie Parker of Granbury, Lou Sudduth of Tyler, Mary Hill of Sharon Springs, Kan., and Jane Tucker of Clovis, N.M.; a grandson, Jamie Pratt of Amarillo; and two great-grandchildren, Kenny and Jeremiah.
Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 28, 2008.
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