Glen Steele
STONEWALL-Services for Glen Newton Steele, 83, of Stonewall are 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Steele died Saturday, January 31, 2015 at the Sulphur Veterans Center. He was born June 1, 1931 in Bebee, Oklahoma to Newton Scott and Ethel Louise Thomas Steele. He attended Irving grade school.
Mr. Steele was employed with KTEN Television as a cameraman and he was an original member of the Ranch Hand's Band at KTEN. He was a disc jockey in Ada and Atoka and later was a painter for the physical plant at East Central University. He served in the U. S. Air Force from July 12, 1949 until being honorably released on July 11, 1950 with the rank of Corporal.
Survivors include his wife, Jeannine Steele, of the home; two daughters, Tonya Oke of Shady Cove, OR and ReneéMartinez of California; a son, Shepard Steele; and his step-children, Susan May, Lyndon Sutton, Kerry Sutton and Randy Lovell, all of Ada; his grandchildren, Randi Lynn Lovell, Shelly Balthrop, Bruce Sutton, Clint Sutton, Archie Van Horn, Shane Roddy, Tyler Roddy, Trevor Sutton and Michael Key; and numerous great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a step-son, Brandon Sutton; a step-grandson, Jackie Balthrop; and two brothers, Sam Steele and Bill Steele.
Grandsons will serve as bearers.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada