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Submitted: 7/29/20 • Approved: 7/30/20 • Last Updated: 8/2/20 • R338078-G338078-S3
July 2, 1922 - September 25, 2002
*Obituary
Services for Lockney lifelong resident, Verna Maye Steele, 80 of Lockney, were at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 28, 2002 at West College & Third Street Church of Christ in Lockney with Frank Duckworth officiating, assisted by Earl McDonough. Burial was in Lockney Cemetery under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Lockney.
Mrs. Steele died Wednesday, September 25, 2002 in New Braunfels.
She was born on July 2, 1922 in Lockney to the late Mr. James Carl Huddleston and Mrs. Della Carthel Huddleston Willmon. She graduated high school in 1942 from Lockney High School. She married James Donald Steele on April 28, 1945 in Floyd County. He preceded her in death on April 28, 1976 She was a beautician and homemaker. Verna had resided in Floyd County until she moved to Spring Branch in July of 2000. She was also preceded in death by a son, James Carl Steele on April 12, 1999.
Survivors include two sons, Robert L. Steele of Spring Branch and David N. Steele of Germantown, Tennessee; three sisters, Catherine Handley of Lubbock, Carlene Corder of Amarillo, and Lela Skutevik of Albuquerque, New Mexico; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
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