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Joe Elgin Steward

2 Jul 1915 – 8 Jul 2000

Birth2 Jul 1915
Death8 Jul 2000
CemeteryNew Hope Cemetery
Mountain Springs , Cooke County , Texas , USA
Added bysue on 25 Jun 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70041524

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Services for Joe Elgin Steward, age 85, of Houston, are set for 2 p.m. Saturday, July 15 at the Clement-Keel Funeral Home Chapel. His son-in-law, the Rev. Mike Bloodsworth will officiate the funeral service assisted by the Rev. Calvin Walker. Burial will be at New Hope Cemetery in Mountain Springs, Texas. Eight of his grandsons, Joe Max Zetzman, Robert Dell Zetzman, Michael Ross Steward, William Brent Steward, Joe Ryan Steward, Neil Thomas Steward, Christopher Allan Steward, Johnathan Elias Steward will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be his other grandchildren. The family will receive friends at the Clement-Keel Funeral Home from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at 1204 E. California Street, Gainesville. Joe Steward was born July 2, 1915, in the Blair House in Weatherford, Custer County, Okla., and moved to the Three Corners area in Roger Mills County as a young boy. Here he grew up on the family farm just west of Leedy, Okla. He attended Three Corners' one-room country schoolhouse and graduated from Liberty Center High School in 1934. His dream was to go to Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State. He attended one year, but the hardships of the depression era forced him to quit and look for work. He enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps and served in Company 1813 and worked on civil construction projects near the Lake Murray area south of Ardmore, Okla. It was here that he met Lucy LaVona Morris and married her April 2, 1935, on her 21st birthday. Joe began his career in the oil and gas industry around 1936 and worked at numerous jobs as he worked his way up in the oil drilling business. In 1947, he went to work for Morris and Hamilton Drilling Co. By 1956 he had moved up to Drilling Superintendent when they sold out to Continental Marine and was Drilling and Production Superintendent when he left in 1962. He spent 2 years with Houston Natural Gas and in 1964 went to work for Ames Oil and Gas and was Manager of Exploration and Operations when he retired in Houston in 1974. During Joe's 38 years in the oil industry and his 62 years of marriage to LaVona, they lived in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky. They had seven children; 24 grandchildren; and 24 great grandchildren. Joe Steward died July 8, 2000, at the Texas Medical Center Hospice in Houston. Having lost his wife LaVona on February 24, 1998, he is survived by daughter, Shirley Yvonne and husband, Bob Max Zetzman of Sweetwater; son, Ronald Joe and wife Dorothy Leigh of Sugarland; daughter, Gueydon Thurber of Horseshoe Bay; son, Clyde Ross and wife Maria Michele of Lake Jackson; son, Sam William and wife Gwendolyn Kay of Hurst; son Dan Brent and wife Gilda Kay of Woodlands; and daughter, Karen Yevette and husband Larry Mike Bloodsworth of Tyler. Survivors also include all of his younger siblings, Ila Juanita Trent, Carl Willmore Steward, Nina belle Fields, Ina Jane Sergesketter, and Burton Dale Steward. Mr. Steward was preceded in death by both parents, Jesse Brent Steward and Lillie Mae Hanshaw Steward; his infant brother, Delpha Alvan Steward; his son-in-law Jack Lee Thurber; and his granddaughter, Lori Lynell Steward. Thursday 13 July 2000 Gainesville DAILY REGISTER okiegirl (#47429181) In the text of the bio, it says Weatherford is in Carter County, Oklahoma but it is in CUSTER county. Joe was my dad's first cousin.

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