Williams, Joanna Belle

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Grandma Steele could make the best Angel Food cake in the whole wide world!!!!

OBIT (Huntington Herald Dispatch, December 10, 1944) : Mrs. Joanna Williams Steele, wife of Ervin D. Steele of the Steele Funeral Home, Huntington, and a resident of this city for the past 35 years, died in a Huntington hospital at 3:45 p.m. yesterday, following an illness of ten days. She had been in frail health for several months preceding the acute illness. Her residence was at 835 Twelfth Avenue. Mrs. Steele was a native of Bloom Furnace, Jackson County, O. She attended public schools of Jackson County and taught school there later. She moved to Huntington in 1909. She was a member of the First Methodist Church and of Chapter 8 of the Eastern Star. Her husband, who survives her, is associated with his brother, Robert R. Steele in the Steele Funeral Home. Mrs. Steele s body will be taken from the Steele Funeral Home to the residence at 10 a.m. today and will be returned to the funeral home tomorrow morning for brief services at 10 a.m. Further services will be held later at Wellston, O., with burial in Ridgewood cemetery there. Besides her husband, Mrs. Steele is survived by three daughters, Mrs. E. L. Raines, Wilkesville, O., Mrs. Harry Ouenon, Keystone W. Va. and Mrs. T. A. Martufi at home; two sons Harold B. Steele and Arthur Steele, and 11 grandchildren.

Joanna married Steele, Ervin Dugan on 3 Mar 1900 in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA. Ervin (son of Steele, Jasper Newton and Ervin, Mary) was born on 15 Aug 1875 in Sciotoville-now part of Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, USA; died on 21 May 1946 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Steele, Alice Grace was born on 1 Aug 1901 in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA; died on 29 Dec 1980 in McArthur, Vinton, Ohio, USA; was buried .
2. Steele, Harold Benson was born on 12 Oct 1904 in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA; died on 1 Dec 1973 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA; was buried on 3 Dec 1973.
3. Steele, Arthur Daly was born on 12 Oct 1904 in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA; died on 27 Dec 1977 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA; was buried on 30 Dec 1977 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA.
4. Steele, Helen Gertrude was born on 29 Sep 1907 in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA; died in Nov 1982 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA; was buried .
5. Steele, Marjorie May was born on 4 Oct 1911 in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, USA; died on 16 Jan 1980 in Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, USA; was buried .