Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Steele, William McKinley (jr.) June 20, 1954
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Sentinel-Standard - Monday, June 21, 1954

Lyons- William McKinley Steele, 57, of Route 1, Ionia, died Sunday, June 20 at 6:15

a.m. at the Ionia County Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient for the last

week. He had been ill for six years.

He was born August 11, 1896, in Ronald township, the son of William and Jessie 
Steele, and had lived all of his life in Ionia county. He had lived at his present 
home on M-21, west of Muir for the last 21 years and was a veteran of World War I. 
He was employed for 27 years at the former Ypsilanti Reed factory in Ionia.

November 27, 1920, he was married to Grace Hendrickson of Ionia township who 
survives him. 

Surviving besides his wife, Grace, are two sons, A-1C Harry Steele of Lockbourne 
Airforce Base, Columbus, Ohio, and Walter Steele at home; two brothers, Arthur 
Steele of Washington, D.C. and Emory Steele of Melvindale; five sisters, Mrs. Lloyd

Snyder of Ionia, Mrs. Leroy Mulnix of Lyons, Mrs. William Trower of Lansing, Mrs. 
Walter Peterman of Sheridan and Mrs. Clare VerHage of Kalamazoo.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Muir 
Presbyterian church with the Rev. Lewis Herrick officiating.

Burial will be at Muir cemetery.

Additional Comments:
Age: 57
Funeral: Wednesday, 23 June, 1954
Muir cemetery 


b. 1896, Aug. 11. son of Wm. & Jessie

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