JoAnn Steele Thompson

JoAnn Steele Thompson passed away November 30, 2015 at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, TX after a recurring battle with cancer.

JoAnn Mardelle Christensen Steele Thompson was born June 12, 1933, in Newman Grove, Nebraska to Lawrence and Pearl Christensen. She had an older sister, Reona, and an older brother, Virgil. JoAnn was confirmed at Shell Creek Lutheran Church in 1947 and graduated from Newman Grove High School in 1950. She began teaching that fall in Kimball County Nebraska.

In 1953 JoAnn married Robert Steele. To this union they gave birth to four sons, Richard Gene,...