SEYMOUR, CT: Pauline Smey Steele, 85 who was residing at the Masonic Home, Wallingford, formerly of Derby Avenue, Seymour for sixty-five years, entered into peaceful rest March 7, 2003 at the Masonic Home. Mrs. Steele was born in Derby November 11, 1917, daughter of the late Nicholas and Sophia (Telep) Smey. She was a retired sales clerk for many years at both former Woolworth Department Store, Derby, and also Reads Department Store, Bridgeport. Pauline was a communicant of St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ansonia; she loved gardening and her cats.
Pauline leaves her loving family including one daughter Sandra Parsons and her husband William of Meriden. Two granddaughters, Julie Gillett of Farmington, and Susan Parsons-Lopez of Houston, TX. Also four great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Her brothers, William, Peter, and John Smey, and sisters, Ann Pupchik, Mildred VanDeest, Mary Kuzma, Helen Francik, and Judith Apster predeceased her.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in the Ralph E. Hull Funeral Home, 161 West Church Street, Seymour. Interment will be in S.S. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Derby. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Memorial gifts may be sent to Hospice and Palliative Care, 33 North Plains Industrial Rd., Wallingford, CT 06492. For directions to the funeral home, and to express condolences to the family online go to www.hullfh.com

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