Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Steele, Evie A. Johnakin December 13, 1943
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot December 14, 1943

                  EVIE J. STEELE, WCTU WORKER, DEATH'S VICTIM
        Church and Temperance Worker Dies After Several Days' Illness

Mrs. Evie J. Steele, for many years a prominent Christian worker in Norfolk, 
died yesterday afternoon at 1:20 o'clock at Leigh Memorial Hospital after 
several days illness.  She had been in declining health for the last six or 
seven years.
Mrs. Steele had served as president of the Young Women's Christian Home for 
about 15 years and before that as secretary for a similar period.  She 
succeeded Mrs. R.H. Jones, organizer of the home, as its head upon the 
latter's death.
She also was an active member of the State and County Women's Christian 
Temperance Unions, being a life member of the former.  She was president of 
the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bi-County WCTU at one time and headed the Norfolk 
union at the time of her death.  She was a lifetime member of Freemason 
Street Baptist Church and active in its work.
The daughter of the late Richard and Martha E. Johnakin, she is survived by 
her husband, J.T. Steele, manager of the Berkley bureau of the Virginian 
Pilot; a sister, Mrs. Cora L. Randolph; a brother, Richard M. Johnakin, and 
several nieces and nephews.  She made her home at 326 Pembroke Avenue.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Freemason 
Street Baptist Church.  Burial will be in the family lot in Elmwood 
Cemetery.  The body will remain at the residence until the time of the 
funeral.

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