The couple had one child, a daughter named Sally, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 8th, 1930.Īlfred's business career started one day after his college graduation, when he and a friend formed a metal brokering business in Chicago, Illinois named H. On December 17th, 1924, Alfred married Marjorie. In college, Alfred played football, was a cheerleader and belonged to many social clubs that included the student council and the R.O.T.C.Īlfred and Marjorie both graduated on June 18th, 1923 Alfred with a bachelor of science degree in commerce, and Marjorie with a bachelor of science degree. In 1919, Alfred enrolled in Northwestern University in Evansville, Illinois where he met his first wife, Marjorie Mabel Garvey. In September 1904, the family moved to Abington, Illinois when Edgar was hired as the history professor at Heddington College. Later, Edgar and Fannie settled in Edgar's hometown of Albion, Michigan, where they lived until their deaths in the mid 1930s. Young Alfred accompanied his parents on these trips, which developed his early love of travel. Edgar's career with the YMCA invovled him traveling all over the world to Tokyo, London, Panama, and Manila. Louis, Missouri where Edgar worked as the international secretary of the YMCA. On April 24th, 1901, Fannie gave birth to the couple's one and only child, Alfred Nu Steele, in Nashville. Edgar gave his son the middle name "Nu" in tribute to his Albion College sorority, Sigma Nu, which Alfred would later pledge at Northwestern University. Shortly after their marriage, the couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where Edgar had been hired as a professor at Nashville University. Edgar studied to be a professor at Albion College where he met his wife, Fannie Bartrem. Fannie was born in Ontario, Canada, and her family moved to Michigan after her birth.Įdgar and Fannie married on August 15th, 1899 in Fannie's family's home in Owosso, Michigan, which was one and a half hours north of Albion. Steele, served as a minister at the local Methodist Episcopal Church. Alfred Nu Steele was born on April 24th, 1901 in Nashville, Tennessee to Edgar Alfred Steele and Fannie Bartrem Steele. Edgar Steele was born in Albion, Michigan, where his father, Newland M. Morning Call reporter Andrew Wagaman can be reached at 61 or. The Heintzelman Funeral Home in Schnecksville is arranging a private service. “She was the best mom in the world to my sister and me,” he said. The items included personalized stationery, costume jewelry, publicity photographs, fur hats and a gold dress with matching turban, belt and gloves.Ĭasey LaLonde noted his mom was a public person insofar as she would do walk-ons with Joan Crawford on game shows as a teen. LaLonde sold dozens of pieces of her mother’s memorabilia in 1997 at Wlazelek’s Auction Gallery in Lower Macungie Township. “ was the most incredibly loving grandmother to us.”Ĭrawford, who died in 1977, won the Best Actress award in 1946 for starring in “Mildred Pierce.” She was later nominated again for the award for roles in “Possessed” and “Sudden Fear,” and starred in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” “She was a staunch defender of her mother,” Casey LaLonde, 47, said of Cathy LaLonde. “In her book, Christina has described my mother as a monster when, in fact, I truly believe it is Christina who is the monster.” “As I read the book, I saw no resemblance between the woman Christina described and the mother I knew and loved,” LaLonde said. Now, I feel only contempt and pity for her. “I’m heartsick, ashamed and disgusted that she could write such a book about her own mother. “I had no indication how Tina (Christina) felt about my mother,” LaLonde told the former Evening Chronicle of Allentown. LaLonde said in a 1978 interview that she had a good relationship with Christina until her sister wrote the book, which she denounced as fiction. LaLonde produced birth certificates stating otherwise, and eventually received $5,000 in damages. In 1998, LaLonde successfully sued her adoptive sister, Christina Crawford, for claiming Cathy and Cynthia were not actually twin sisters while promoting a new edition of “Mommie Dearest,” her bestselling 1978 book about their mother. In 2006, she moved with Carla and Olivia to Miami until about 2016, when they moved back to the Lehigh Valley to be with family. “She loved every moment she was able to spend with those children,” Carla LaLonde said. She led her life “feeling blessed to have had the opportunities of a great education, traveling throughout the world and a nurturing upbringing that molded and shaped her into the woman she became,” her obituary reads.įrom about 1996 to 2006, LaLonde worked with the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit as a bus aide for children with special needs, serving school districts in Lehigh County, according to her children. LaLonde reconnected with her biological family in the early 1990s.
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