Graduated from Rutland High School in 1938 and went on to graduate of Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Brooklyn, NY in 1944
Married Arthur C. Steele in 1944 and he died in 1981.
Over the years she was employed as a nurse in the office of Dr. Gordon Smith of Rutland, at Rutland Hospital, for the Visiting Nurse Association, as School Nurse for the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, at the Vermont Achievement Center, and as a Public Health Nurse for the Vermont Department of Health
She retired from nursing at 75 yrs of age then volunteered for the Green Mountain Foster Grandparent Association, assisting teachers in various Rutland Public Schools until she was 90.
She recieved the President’s Voluntary Service Award in 2005 for her outstanding service to the city’s children; Governor’s Award for Community Service in 2009
She was an active member of the Rutland United Methodist Church for 86 years was named as the Vermont District’s United Methodist Woman of the Year for 2018 and an active member of the community
Survived by a daughter and her husband; a son and his wife; three grandsons; and six great grandchildren
Predeceased by her husband and two brothers, Kenneth and Robert Teachout
Tossing Funeral Home
(Information extracted from full obituary published in the Rutland Herald on Oct. 24, 2018)
Graduated from Rutland High School in 1938 and went on to graduate of Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Brooklyn, NY in 1944
Married Arthur C. Steele in 1944 and he died in 1981.
Over the years she was employed as a nurse in the office of Dr. Gordon Smith of Rutland, at Rutland Hospital, for the Visiting Nurse Association, as School Nurse for the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, at the Vermont Achievement Center, and as a Public Health Nurse for the Vermont Department of Health
She retired from nursing at 75 yrs of age then volunteered for the Green Mountain Foster Grandparent Association, assisting teachers in various Rutland Public Schools until she was 90.
She recieved the President’s Voluntary Service Award in 2005 for her outstanding service to the city’s children; Governor’s Award for Community Service in 2009
She was an active member of the Rutland United Methodist Church for 86 years was named as the Vermont District’s United Methodist Woman of the Year for 2018 and an active member of the community
Survived by a daughter and her husband; a son and his wife; three grandsons; and six great grandchildren
Predeceased by her husband and two brothers, Kenneth and Robert Teachout
Tossing Funeral Home
(Information extracted from full obituary published in the Rutland Herald on Oct. 24, 2018)
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