“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” ~ Helen Keller

Forthcoming funeral services are planned for the following friends from our community. Complete versions of these obituaries may also be found in The Payson Chronicle.

Laura Mae Carriere Steele

Aug. 31, 1937 – Nov. 29, 2019

Laura Mae Carriere Steele, 82, of Haughton, LA returned home to her Heavenly

Father on Nov. 29, 2019 and was reunited with her husband and love of her life.

She married Richard “Dick” Steele in 1953 and raised 5 boys and lived in Eunice

and Haughton, Louisiana, Payson, Utah, Georgia, Maine, North Dakota and

Panama. Dick and Laura returned to Texas after Dick retired from the Civil Service

in Panama.

Laura had a passion for the simple things of life, her husband and 5 boys, flowers,

anything with Owls, her many dogs and other pets that she had. She loved working

in her yard when she was able to do that. She was active in the Catholic Church

and always enjoyed Christmas and Easter. Laura had many good friends from all

the places where she lived and kept in touch with many of them, especially Neil and

Jeannine VanAusdal from Santaquin, Utah, and Cleo Burdick from Payson, Utah.

The funeral service will be held at the Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home in

Haughton, LA on Weds. Dec. 4th at 3PM, with Father Karl Daigle – St. Jude

Catholic Church officiating. A gathering of friends and family will be held after the

services.

Laura is survived by three sisters, Linda Carriere Tatman, Mary Carriere

Duplechain, Helena Carriere Oubre, four sons, Daniel G (Diana) Steele, Mark E.

(Debbie) Steele, Donald James “Jim” (Yvonne) Steele and Zachary S. Steele and

nine grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by

her Husband Richard G. Steele, son, Shawn A. Steele, her parents, Azama and

Andrew Carrierre, sisters, Lucy Carriere Arnaud, Elizabeth “Betty” Carriere Wead,

brothers, Ivan Luke Carriere and Rodney James Carrier.

We appreciate Mark Steele for his love and care the last few years, Mom’s friend

Marty, and all the health care professionals that have helped Laura for their love

and kindness they showed her. Laura will be missed and was loved by many.

Monday, December 2, 2019