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Show FUNERAL MASS CELEBRATED FOR J0HN STEELE Funeral mass was conducted Wednesday morning in the Holy Rosary Catholic church for John Steele, 62, general powder foreman fore-man for the Utah Copper company com-pany at the Bingham mine. Mr. Steele died instantly at 8:15 a. m. Sunday when he accidentally acci-dentally fell beneath the wheels of a supply train. He had gone on duty at the open-pit mine at 7 a. m. and was standing on a flat car on a train operating on F level when the accident occurred. oc-curred. Mr. Steele began working for the Utah Copper company on April 4, 1904, when the company began its operations, and was the oldest mine employee in point of service. He was employed as a miner, shift boss and drilling and blast- I JOHN STEELE ing foreman, successively, and since January 1, 1940, had been general powder foreman. In 1926 Mr. Steele received a 20-year award for service with the company, com-pany, one of the first group of mine employees to be so honored. honor-ed. He was born at Egremont, Cumberland, England, on April 12, 1879, a son of Jonathan and Sarah Jane Steele. In 1900 he came to Three Forks, B.C., and next year came to Utah. He married mar-ried Mary Hyland of Bingham 1 on August 17, 1905. Besides his widow, he is survived sur-vived by three daughters, Mrs. Albert Kastelic of Copperton-Mrs. Copperton-Mrs. Lloyd Harris of Magna and Mrs. George Evankovich of Bingham; Bing-ham; two brothers, Harry and Jackson Steele of Bingham and five sisters residing in England. The Rev. Daniel E. Leahy conducted con-ducted the mass. The funeral was attended by a host of friends of the deceased. Hundred of beautiful beau-tiful floral tributes testified to the high regard in which Mr. Steele was held. Pallbearers were Roy Shilling, T. P. Billings of Salt Lake City, F. O. Haymond of Magna, Sam Pino, Francisco Marino and James Crellin. Interment was in Mt. Calvary cemetery. The Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt, bishop of the Salt Lake diocese, dedicated the grave. V . |