Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Mrs. Mattie Warren Claunch Steele
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Mrs. Mattie Warren Claunch Steele
    Mrs. Mattie (Aunt Matt) Warren Claunch Steele, 88, of Celeste, a life-long
resident of the Hickory Creek community and Celeste died at 9:00 AM Wednesday,
May 17, 1967, in a Bonham hospital following an illness of several months.
    Services were at 2:30 PM Thursday, May 18, 1967, in the Celeste Baptist
Church with the Rev. Bill Reisor, pastor, and the Rev. Bob Layman officiating.
    Mrs. Steele was born on September 17, 1878, at Hickory Creek, the daughter
of Isaiah Simms Warren and Sarah Elizabeth Taylor Warren.  She was married to
Homer Claunch, who preceded her in death.  She was also preceded in death by
her second husband, Henry Steele, two sons, and a daughter.
    Mrs. Steele had made her home in Celeste with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Lem
Warren the past few years.
    Mrs. Steele is survived by a son, James Claunch of Denison; a step-
daughter, Kate McKnight of Wichita Falls; a brother, Lem Warren of Celeste;
eight grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.
    Active pallbearers were Harold Armstrong, Albert Granberry, Herman Compton,
Jacque Bickham, Howard Nix, and B. V. Smith.
    Honorary pallbearers were Mack Pierson, C. E. Brewer, E. H. Blankenship, S.
R. Granberry, Byird Glasscoe, and Preston Lake.  (May 19, 1967, The Celeste
Courier)