Cleo Steele Dean

March, 28, 1908 - June, 11, 2006

Cleo Steele Dean, 98, passed away at home on Sunday June 11, after a long illness. She was born March 28, 1908, in Perry County, Kentucky, the second child of Julius C. and Mary Eversole Steele. She attended school in Hazard and Berea, Kentucky before entering Sayre College, Lexington, where she graduated in 1926 and subsequently attended Stonewall Jackson College in Abingdon, Virginia, graduating in 1928. She was employed by the Hyden Citizens’ Bank, and became a member of the bank’s Board of Directors in 1929 and later served as postmistress for a mining camp in eastern Kentucky. She began working as a legislative clerk in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1950. In 1955, she began a career as a social worker in the Jessamine County office of the Kentucky Department of Economic Security. She remained in social work, becoming a statewide quality control analyst in 1964, and retired from the Department in 1972

In 1930 she married Arthur J. (Dick) Mandt and they divorced in 1944 and in 1945 she married Lowrey Dean, of Nicholasville who died in 1986. Survivors include her sons Richard D. Mandt & wife Judith, Edward J. Mandt, and wife Martha, all of Fl., and George W. Dean, Nicholasville, a sister, Anita Steele Evans, of Nicholasville, five grandsons, Richard, Nicholasville, Joseph, Michael and wife Amy, A.J. Marc and wife Debora, and Samuel Mandt and wife Jennifer, all of Fl., nine great-grandchildren, surrogate grandchildren, Sarahbeth and David Solomon Smith, and special friends Eunice Reynolds, Alice Harmon, Brenda Edrington and Zereda Purvis. She was preceded in death by a daughter Jeanne Mandt in 1967 and a brother George Elmer Steele in 1927.

Services will be 10:00 AM Wed. June 14, at HAGER & CUNDIFF FUNERAL HOME, W.Oak St.,with Rev. Jerry Johns and Rev. Lonnie Moore officiating. and will be laid to rest beside her daughter, brother, and parents 2:30 PM Wed., at Engleside Cemetery, Hazard, Ky. Pallbearers are David Richardson, Joe Cropper, Robert Thompson, and Cleo’s grandsons.Visitation will be Tues., June 12 from 4 to 9 PM at the funeral home. Contributions may be made in her memory to Hospice of the Bluegrass or Providence Christian Church Building Fund.

Funeral Information

Tues., June 12 from 4 to 9 PM at the funeral home

10:00 AM Wed. June 14,
at HAGER & CUNDIFF FUNERAL HOME

2:30 PM Wed., at Engleside Cemetery