Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Steele- Class of 1960

  
  Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Steele, 61, of Tucson, Ariz., died Sunday following a series of illnesses.
A 1960 graduate of Knightstown High School and 1965 graduate of Butler University, she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She was a welfare worker in Indianapolis and then a Vista volunteer, serving Native Americans in Winnebago, Neb. Working for the Methodist Church, she served Native Americans in North Carolina and Oklahoma and
survivors of the Buffalo Creek, W.Va., flood disaster. In 1979, she received a master’s degree in counseling from Arizona State University. She worked with teenagers at New Directions for Young Women, which became the Family Counseling Agency. July 1, 2003, marked her 20th anniversary. She was certified as a professional counselor by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health and the National Professional Counselors Commission. She was a member of the American Counseling Association, the Arizona Counseling Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Personnel and Guidance Associations and the National Association of Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors. Her volunteer activities included counseling for the Tucson AIDS Project, participating the HIV/AIDS Therapists Networking Group and volunteering at the teaching hospital associated with the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine. She was born Oct. 27, 1942, in Indianapolis, a daughter of Elizabeth Mai Kalleen Steele and Richard Monticue Steele.
She is survived by her mother of Knightstown; a brother, David (wife: Diane) of Knightstown; niece and nephew, Kalleen, USAF and Drew, St. Louis, Mo.; and an aunt, Betty Kalleen of Fishers; cousins, Julie Bubul of Orcle, Ariz., Rick Steele of Springfield, Va., Jenny Brown of Oak Harbor, Wash., Steve Bubul of St. Paul, Minn., Bob Russell of Geneva, Ill., Jim Russell of Roswell, Ga., Chip Kalleen of Indianapolis, Cheryl Beerbower of Fishers, Bob Wilcox of Sherman Oak, Ca., and their spouses and children; friends, Sue and Laura Moran of Tucson, Ariz.
She was preceded in death by her father; aunts and uncles, Mary Isabel Steele and Jake Bubul, Theodore and Jane Preston Steele, Nancy Kalleen and Robert Russell, Agnes Kalleen and Jacob Wilcox and James L. Kalleen.
Services are 10 a.m. Saturday at Todd Funeral Home Butcher Chapel in Knightstown. Friends may call 9 a.m. until the time of service Saturday at the funeral home. Graveside services and burial will follow at Glen Cove Cemetery in Knightstown. Memorial contributions may be made in the name of Betsy Steele to Knightstown Public Library, the American Diabetes Association, or the Tucson Center for Women and Children, 2555 E. Adams, Tucson, Ariz. 86716.
Wednesday, July 07, 2004