Obit of Steele, Aubrey L. - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

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Steele, Aubrey L. 

PAMPA - Aubrey L. Steele, 92, died Friday, Aug. 13, 2004, in McLean.

Memorial graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Monday in Fairview Cemetery 
with John Curry officiating. Arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley 
Funeral Directors.

Mr. Steele was born Oct. 17, 1911, in Roger Mills County, Okla., near Elk 
City where he was a graduate of Elk City High School.

He received his bachelor's of art and master's of art degrees in history 
from the University of Oklahoma. He married Margaret Irby Eikner on Dec. 
25, 1936, in Altus, Okla.

Mr. Steele came to Pampa in 1938 and was a history teacher and assistant 
principal at Pampa High School from 1938 to 1946. In 1946, he became 
manager of Security Federal Savings and Loan Association. He later served 
as president of Security Federal until his retirement in 1982.

He represented Security Federal and Pampa as a director of the Texas 
Savings and Loan League, and from 1967 to 1970, he was a director and 
vice-chairman of the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Little Rock, 
Ark.

He was a former president of the Pampa Chamber of Commerce and a former 
trustee and board president of the Pampa Independent School District Board 
of Trustees. He was a member of First United Methodist Church and a former 
member of the Downtown Kiwanis Club.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Richard Steele and wife, Jane, of 
Pampa; a daughter, Linda Steele Perry of Castroville; and four 
grandchildren, Richard Joshua Steele and Melissa Lomax and husband, Kirk, 
all of San Antonio, Ellen Wedemeyer and husband, Drew, of Fort Worth and 
Matt Perry and wife, Christa, of Pampa.

The family suggests memorials be to First United Methodist Church, P.O. 
Box 1981, Pampa, TX 79066-1981 or to Pampa Learning Center Scholarship 
Fund, 400 N. Faulkner, Pampa, TX 79065.

Please sign our online register book at www.carmichael-whatley.com.

Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 15, 2004
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