March 6, 1925 - Aug. 30, 2007

Jean S. Steiger, 82, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., passed away Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007, at the Sierra Vista Regional Health Center. She had been a resident of Sierra Vista for nine years.

Jean was born March 6, 1925, in Hinsdale, Ill., to Leonard Paul and Beatrice Tyron Strubler. Jean was an accomplished business and legal secretary. She retired from Howard County Circuit Court in Ellicott City, Md., in 1987, where she was the Administrative Assistant to the Honorable Raymond Kane. She met her husband, Jim, working at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Baltimore, Md. They were married for 56 years and traveled all over the United States and abroad. Jean and Jim lived in New York, Utah, Connecticut, Maryland, Florida and Colorado. They finally settled in Sierra Vista and named it their Camelot.

Jean and Jim traveled to Africa on several occasions through the International Executive Service Corp., where Jim assisted the hospitals with accounting programs and Jean assisted with teaching Sunday school to the many children in Zambia. She also volunteered as a physical therapist assistant in Colorado and Africa.

Jean loved people and enjoyed attending and serving the Jennings Chapel United Methodist Church in Howard County, Md., and most recently the Village Meadows Baptist Church in Sierra Vista. Her hobbies included bowling, creative writing, bird-watching and spending time with her two daughters, her friends and her beloved dogs, Ike and Ink.

Jean was the cherished wife of the late James F.  Steiger and is survived by her two daughters, Patricia Ann Steiger of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Ellen Louise Steiger of Westminster, Md.

Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, at the Village Meadows Baptist Church, El Camino Real and Foothills Drive, in Sierra Vista, with Pastor Mark Pitts officiating.

Private family interment will be at the Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

Arrangements are by the Hatfield Funeral Home.