OBIT: Alexander STEELE, 1946, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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ALEXANDER STEELE

  Former pastor of the Meyersdale Methodist Church, Rev. Alexander Steele, died 
on Wednesday, July 31, in Chautauqua, N.Y., where he had been assistant pastor 
the last three years.  Funeral services were held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, 
in the Hershberger Funeral Home, West End, Pittsburgh.  Interment in Jefferson 
Memorial Cemetery, Monday.
  Rev. Steele was aged 72 at time of death.  He was born in England and came to 
America at the age of four years.  During his ministry in Pennsylvania, he 
served as pastor of Methodist churches in Meyersdale, Ligonier, Brookline and 
Braddock.
  It was during the pastorate of Rev. Steele that the debt on the Meyersdale 
church was liquidated in 1918 with Bishop William Berry present for the services 
incident to the celebration of the indebtedness being cleared.
  He is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Alma Andrews Steele; four sons, James 
W. Steele, Alexander T. Steele, Albert J. Steele and Robert B. Steele; three 
daughters, Miss Margaret J. Steele, Mrs. Rebecca S. Hershberger, and Mrs. 
Phyllis S. Nesbit, and six grandchildren.

Meyersdale Republican, August 8, 1946