Here is another obit. This is for my
Grandmother,
Grace Mae Duke, (Knecht/Steele) born in Orland, IN 13 Feb.
1893.
It does not list her parents, Grove J. Duke and Emma Jane Moore Duke,
her late husband Dale Glover Knecht, or siblings Claude C.
Duke and Maude Duke Munch. This is not a very informative
obit.
From the Toledo Blade 16 Oct., 1971;
Montpelier, Ohio.............Mrs. Grace Steele, 78,
of Montpelier. Surviving are her husband, Carl; son, Russell
Knecht; daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Knisely, Mrs. Donna Kirkwood, Mrs. Mary
Jane Link,
Mrs. Emma Jean Chrisman, Mrs. Ruth Ann Swank, Mrs. Caryl Hyland, Mrs.
Shirley
Lee Smith, and Mrs. Sally Schoonover; stepsons, Ora, Dorris,
Lester,
and Claris Steele, and stepdaughters, Mrs. Maxellen Mason, Mrs. Eleanor
Miller, and Mrs. Mary Gabers. Services at 2 pm Tuesday in the
Wilson-Geesey Mortuary.
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