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- CARLTON STEELE, NATIVE OF BLACK RIVER, DIES
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - June 26, 1989
Carlton R. Steele, 72, Stewart Street, died Sunday at Oswego Hospital, where he had been a patient one week.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Summerville Funeral Home, Sandy Creek, with the Rev. Daniel B. Baker, officiating.
Burial will be in Sanford Corners Cemetery, Calcium.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Surviving are three sons, Carl and Richard, both of Orwell, and John, Parish; 10 grandchildren; a sister, Doris Rendell, Watertown, and
several nieces and nephews.
Born at Black River Dec. 5, 1916, a son of George and Jessie Sharp Steele, he was educated in Black River and Sandy Creek schools.
He married Eva Stacy on April 28, 1945, in Fulton. The couple moved to Richland in 1947. Mrs. Steele died March 3, 1988.
Mr. Steele was employed as a foreman for the New York Central Railroad, which later became the Penn Central and then Conrail, retiring
in 1979 after more than 30 years.
He was an Army veteran of World War II, and was wounded in the Pacific. He was a member of Central Square Disabled American
Veterans post, the Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, Pulaski, and the Cable Trail Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8534, Lacona.
He was also a retired member of the Richland Fire Department.
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1917 - 1989 (72 years)