Birth date: Nov 10, 1937 Death date: Jan 4, 2018
Dr. James LeRoy Steele (Jim), formerly of Centerville, Iowa, Suffolk, Virginia and Manhattan, Kansas, died on January 4, 2018 after a long battle with stage 4 colon cancer. He was a devoted and loving husband, father and grandfat Read Obituary
We want to extend our deepest sympathies to Diane, Kim, and Heather and families. Our thoughts are with you and we regret not being able to be there in person.
Dear Diane and familyI've known Jim for a very long time. I first met Jim when he worked at the Tidewater Research Station in Holland and I was a young undergraduate agricultural engineering student at Virginia Tech working on designing a pig flipper as my senior design project. I got to know him much better as a graduate student as Joe Harner and I spent a lot of time at the Holland station with our solar grain drying research. I've met up with Jim at ASABE and APRES meetings. He was always a pleasure to be around, a brilliant engineer, and I must say one of the engineers that has most influenced my career. After Jim was transferred to Manhattan, I still made it a point to try to meet up with him at the Annual ASAE meetings just to chat and bounce ideas around. I lost contact with him when he retired, but kept up with his whereabouts through our mutual friend, Scott Wright. I'll miss Jim even more now. I'll remember you and your family as you adjust to life without a husband, father, and grandfather where you can see and touch him.Kindest regards,Chris Butts - Fellow Ag EngineerUSDA, ARS National Peanut Research Lab
With Deepest Sympathy.
