Submitter:  Nadine A. Hardin

Name:  George W. Steele

South Bend Tribune:  August 20, 1979

Surnames mentioned:  Steele, Peltz, Gustin, Holdeman

Indiana South Bend Tribune, Obituaries; Monday, August 20, 1979, p. 31.

George Wesley Steele, 68, of 61490 Meadowlark Lane, died at 5:15 p.m. Saturday at Big Cedar Lake, Marcellus.  He retired in 1969 from the A & P Co., where he had been a supervisor of the western district.  He was employed there for 45 years.  Steele was born on Jan. 16, 1911, in South Bend and lived here all his life.  On Dec. 29, 1972, in South Bend, he married Helen Peltz Gustin, who survives.  Also surviving are a son, Craig M. of San Francisco; a grandchild, and a sister, Esther Gill Holdeman of Elkhart.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. William, with Rev. Lester Bill, associate pastor of the Grace United Methodist Church, officiating.  Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park.  Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home.  Steele was a member of the church, the South Bend Lodge 294 F & AM, the Scottish Rite Valley of South Bend, the Orak Temple, the South Bend Shrine Club, the Masonic Social Club and the Phi Kappa Delta Fraternity.  He was a Navy veteran of World War II.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children.  A masonic memorial service will be conducted at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home.