The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, May 14, 1995                   TAG: 9505140003
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: YORKTOWN                           LENGTH: Short :   22 lines

RONALD C. STEELE

Ronald C. Steele, 81, died Friday, May 12, 1995, in York Convalescent Center, Yorktown.

Col. Steele was a Fighter Pilot with the Flying Tigers in WW II and was a 32nd Degree Mason in the Grand Rapids, Mich., masonic lodge.

He is survived by a daughter, Penny S. Wilcox of North Carolina; a son Thomas R. Steele of Florida; and his fiancee, Mrs. Jeniel Teifer of Virginia Beach.

Funeral Services will be Private.

Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, in charge of arrangements.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB