Richard Allen Steer

Richard Allen “Dick” Steer Sr., age 72, passed away on April 17, 2010 at the Earl B. Hadlow Center in Jacksonville.

He was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on June 21, 1937 to Mary (Sepelak) Steer and Frank Steer. Over the course of his professional life, he was proud of the fact that he started as a pressman to later become the Director of Lithography at Pittsburgh Metal Lithograph in Crafton, PA and later for U.S. Can Ballonoff plants in New Castle, Pennsylvania and Warren and Columbiana, Ohio. Dick was a founding member of the Tristate Metal Decorators Association as well as member of the Teamsters’ Graphic Communications International Union. In retirement, Dick and Bev lived in Columbiana, Ohio then Ormond Beach, Florida where he served as President of the Corinthian Villas Condo Association for a number of years. He was a member of San Juan del Rio Catholic Church in St. Augustine, Fl.

Dick was a loving and devoted husband, Father, Grandfather and Friend. He will be remembered most for his good nature, sense of humor and mostly for being loved by everyone he came in contact with. He enjoyed traveling to be with his family and could often be found up before dawn fishing with friends at the beach across from the condo he and his wife Beverly reside in at Ormond by the Sea, Florida. He was active despite his condition with Parkinson’s disease and traveled until illness confined him to recent hospice care where he was surrounded by his loving family. He will be sadly missed by his family and his many friends.

Dick was preceded in death by his parents, Frank & Mary Steer, and his older brother, Frank Robert (Bob) Steer.

He will be missed by his loving wife of 52 years Beverly Ann (Creen) Steer, his children; Richard A. Steer Jr. (Jane), Karen Lynn Steer, Elizabeth Jo (Steer) Kawecki (Steve) and his five grandchildren, Richie, Christopher and Cameron Steer, and Skylar and Spencer Kawecki.

Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, prayer masses may be made in Richard’s memory or contributions to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research. and will be interred at Queen of Heaven cemetery in McMurray, Pennsylvania.

St. Johns Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.