Ed Steel
December 27, 1930 - December 14, 1999

Ed Steele GENESEO, Ill. - Ed Steele, 68, of Geneseo, Ill., died Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1999, at Hammond-Henry Hospital in Geneseo. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Malachy's Catholic Church in Geneseo. The Rev. Michael Pakula will officiate. Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Friday at Myers Chapel, Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services in Geneseo. A parish rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m. Memorials may be made to Beverly Steele Memorial Scholarship Fund. Mr. Steele was born Dec. 27, 1930, in Avery, the son of John and Gertrude Thompson Steele. He married Beverly Kurriger on July 14, 1956, in Muscatine. She died on Jan. 2, 1996. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War Period. He was head of the department of radiology at the former St. Joseph's Hospital in Keokuk from 1956 until 1976. He was then head of radiology department at Hammon-Henry Hospital in Geneseo from 1976 until retiring in 1992. He was a member of St. Malachy's Catholic Church in Geneseo. Survivors include a daughter Susan Riley and her husband, Joseph, of East Moline; a son Mark Steele and his wife, Taley, of Cincinnati, Ohio; sisters, Glendola Reinier of Muscatine and Barbara Stanley of Oregon; brothers, Murl Hume of Unionville, Mo.; Jerry Steele, Phillip Steele, both of Muscatine and Bob Steele of Davenport. He was preceded in death by his wife, Beverly and a brother.

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