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Tressie Harriet Booker
Steiling
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[January 09, 2015]
WAYNESVILLE
- Tressie Harriet Booker Steiling, 92, of Jonesboro, Ark., formerly
of West Memphis, Ark., and Waynesville, died Dec. 27, 2014, at St.
Bernard's Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark.
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Visitation:
None
Service:
A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday
at Evergreen Cemetery, Waynesville.
Funeral home: Peasley Funeral Home, Lincoln
Obituary
Tressie Harriet Booker Steiling, 92, of Jonesboro,
Ark., formerly of West Memphis, Ark., and
Waynesville, died Dec. 27, 2014, at St. Bernard's
Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark.
A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday
at Evergreen Cemetery, Waynesville.
She is survived by a daughter, Kathy (Curtis) Early
of Holiday Island, Ark.; two sons, Kevin Gene
Steiling of Franklin, Tenn. and Stephen Blaine
(Sandra) Steiling of Jonesboro, Ark.; two
grandchildren: Jeffrey Blaine Steiling of Jonesboro,
Ark. and Jennifer Steiling of Little Rock, Ark.; and
two great-grandchildren, Ashley and Allison Steiling
of Jonesboro, Ark.
Mrs. Steiling was born April 21, 1922, in
Waynesville. She was the daughter of John and Minnie
Booker of Waynesville. She married Blaine Matthew
Steiling on Feb. 3, 1941.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her
parents, four brothers and two sisters.
She was a past member of the Waynesville Methodist
Church and a graduate of Waynesville High School.
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Born on a farm in Central Illinois, Tressie lived
her life according to the values learned on the
farm: hard work, thrift, honesty and common sense.
She raised her three children to observe these
principles in their own lives as well.
Tressie contracted tuberculosis at a young age and
endured the somewhat-primitive treatments available
during the early 1940s, eventually being cured and
returning to her life as a wife and mother. She
devoted her life to her family. Her hobby was
cooking (famous for her potato salad and homemade
noodles, among other dishes) and she was an avid
reader. Although an outside observer might consider
her life unremarkable, she had an enormous impact
upon the number of friends and family who were close
to her. Consequently, her life is indisputable proof
that living a quiet life is not synonymous with
living an insignificant one.
In lieu of flowers, a donation in Tressie's name to
the Alzheimer's Foundation of America is suggested.
Local arrangements are entrusted with Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home of Atlanta.
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