Emily Lloyd Steele Obituary (1925

Emily Elizabeth Lloyd Steele passed away January 11, 2018 in Provo, Utah. Emily was born in Caribou, Maine on October 4, 1925 and was married and raised her three children in Milford, Connecticut. Though she would later spend many years living in Northern California and here in Utah County, she never failed to remind one and all that she was forever a New Englander at heart. In keeping with that contrarian Yankee tradition of taking the road less traveled, Emily married her newly acquired step brother, Clifford, when he returned from World War II in January of 1946, a union that would last 72 years. Six years later in 1952 she again made an unconventional choice, becoming one of the few residents of Milford, Connecticut to embrace the gospel message delivered by sister missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In addition to cheerfully enduring the two hour drive to Stake Meetings that Connecticut LDS membership required, Emily faithfully served in multiple church positions including Relief Society President, Young Women’s President and countless teaching positions including a mission in Richmond, Virginia in 1998-1999. In addition to serving in the church and raising her three children, Emily worked an eclectic mix of jobs from driving a school bus, cooking in a commercial pie bakery, and providing health care services at Yale-New Haven hospital. Emily was an accomplished cook, a gifted artist who never tired of discussing her love of oil painting, a quilt maker, and a cunning and merciless Scrabble player. But perhaps Emily’s most lasting legacy will be her joyful playfulness, her uninhibited laughter, and her delightful unpredictability. Emily is survived by her loving husband Clifford Steele of Provo, Utah, her children Linda Kurdyla of San Pedro, California, Cathy Steele Leifson of Provo, Utah and Daniel Steele of Redmond, Washington. Additionally she is survived by 11 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, January 18, 2018 at the Berg Drawing Room Chapel, 185 East Center Street, Provo, Utah. Friends may call at the mortuary Wednesday, January 17, from 6-8:00 p.m. and Thursday from 10-10:50 a.m. prior to services. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. Condolences may be expressed at www.bergmortuary.com.