OBITUARY
(From "The Chattanooga Times," Sunday, March 26, 1972: pages A1-A2)
EDWARD F. STEINER DEAD; BUSINESS, CIVIC LEADER 73
Edward Francis Steiner, for many years a business and civic leader in Chattanooga, died Saturday afternoon in a Chattanooga hospital. He was 73.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church with Msgr. Francis P. Pack officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Herbert Haile Jr., Pete Page, Carl L. Gibson, Joseph P. Nolan, James A. Davis and Hugh A. Brown. They are asked to meet at Turner Funeral Home Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Steiner was a soft-drink bottling plant and advertising executive, chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority 10 years and a veteran of World War I and the Mexican border incident of 1916.
Mr. Steiner was born here Oct. 25, 1898, the second of four children of Edward Francis and Anna Heiny Steiner. He attended school at Notre Dame but quit after finishing the sixth grade to go to work because his father had died.
He started working in grocery stores and soda fountains but before he retired in 1964 he had, with several associates, held substantial interests in some half-dozen successful business ventures.
In 1928 he obtained an Orange Crush bottling franchise and in 1932 formed a partnership with Carl Gibson which continued through a much expanded soft-drink operation and into an advertising business.
Steiner and Gibson added a Grapette bottling franchise to their line and gradually, with other associates, acquired a Grapette bottling plant in Knoxville and 7-Up bottling rights in Cleveland and Jasper, Tenn; Aiken, S. C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Dalton, Augusta and Athens, Ga., and Charleston, Huntington and Wheeling, W. Va.
Then Steiner and Gibson started building their own advertising billboards. They bought out Packer Advertising Co. and in 1950, with the advent of soft-drink vending machines, sold most of their bottling interests and started Lookout Advertising Co. Because Steiner wanted to retire they sold out their billboards in 1964. He continued as vice president of Ruby Falls.
While chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority Steiner served as a national director of the National Housing Conference.
He was a past director of the Chattanooga chapter, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and also was a national director of that organization.
He was on the board of the Council of Community Forces, was one of the founders of the Serra club in Chattanooga and was on the board of the USO here. He attained the fourth degree, the highest echelon of the Knights of Columbus, and served as Grand Knight. He was a warden of his church, Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic.
His civic work extended to the Experiment in International Living, which he served as president and secretary here. He had been a board member of the Half-Century Club, president of the Notre Dame Athletic Club and secretary of the Notre Dame High School building committee.
In World War I, Steiner was with the 117th Infantry medical unit which was in fierce fighting along the Western front. He was with a British division when it finally broke the Hindenburg Line.
Returning home he joined the American Legion and held several offices in the Legion and "40 et 8."
He married Myra Weidner in June 1925.
Besides his wife Steiner is survived by two sons, Edward F. Steiner, Jr. and Jack Steiner of Chattanooga; and five daughters, Sister Catherine Steiner of Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Ann Hendee, Mrs. Shirley Prey, Mrs. Lloyd Knott and Mrs. Carole Tubbs of Chattanooga; 22 grandchildren; two sisters, Miss Barbara Steiner and Mrs. Emil S. Davis; one brother, Frank Steiner, all of Chattanooga.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's favorite charity.
(From "The Chattanooga Times," Sunday, March 26, 1972: pages A1-A2)
EDWARD F. STEINER DEAD; BUSINESS, CIVIC LEADER 73
Edward Francis Steiner, for many years a business and civic leader in Chattanooga, died Saturday afternoon in a Chattanooga hospital. He was 73.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church with Msgr. Francis P. Pack officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Herbert Haile Jr., Pete Page, Carl L. Gibson, Joseph P. Nolan, James A. Davis and Hugh A. Brown. They are asked to meet at Turner Funeral Home Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Steiner was a soft-drink bottling plant and advertising executive, chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority 10 years and a veteran of World War I and the Mexican border incident of 1916.
Mr. Steiner was born here Oct. 25, 1898, the second of four children of Edward Francis and Anna Heiny Steiner. He attended school at Notre Dame but quit after finishing the sixth grade to go to work because his father had died.
He started working in grocery stores and soda fountains but before he retired in 1964 he had, with several associates, held substantial interests in some half-dozen successful business ventures.
In 1928 he obtained an Orange Crush bottling franchise and in 1932 formed a partnership with Carl Gibson which continued through a much expanded soft-drink operation and into an advertising business.
Steiner and Gibson added a Grapette bottling franchise to their line and gradually, with other associates, acquired a Grapette bottling plant in Knoxville and 7-Up bottling rights in Cleveland and Jasper, Tenn; Aiken, S. C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Dalton, Augusta and Athens, Ga., and Charleston, Huntington and Wheeling, W. Va.
Then Steiner and Gibson started building their own advertising billboards. They bought out Packer Advertising Co. and in 1950, with the advent of soft-drink vending machines, sold most of their bottling interests and started Lookout Advertising Co. Because Steiner wanted to retire they sold out their billboards in 1964. He continued as vice president of Ruby Falls.
While chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority Steiner served as a national director of the National Housing Conference.
He was a past director of the Chattanooga chapter, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and also was a national director of that organization.
He was on the board of the Council of Community Forces, was one of the founders of the Serra club in Chattanooga and was on the board of the USO here. He attained the fourth degree, the highest echelon of the Knights of Columbus, and served as Grand Knight. He was a warden of his church, Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic.
His civic work extended to the Experiment in International Living, which he served as president and secretary here. He had been a board member of the Half-Century Club, president of the Notre Dame Athletic Club and secretary of the Notre Dame High School building committee.
In World War I, Steiner was with the 117th Infantry medical unit which was in fierce fighting along the Western front. He was with a British division when it finally broke the Hindenburg Line.
Returning home he joined the American Legion and held several offices in the Legion and "40 et 8."
He married Myra Weidner in June 1925.
Besides his wife Steiner is survived by two sons, Edward F. Steiner, Jr. and Jack Steiner of Chattanooga; and five daughters, Sister Catherine Steiner of Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Ann Hendee, Mrs. Shirley Prey, Mrs. Lloyd Knott and Mrs. Carole Tubbs of Chattanooga; 22 grandchildren; two sisters, Miss Barbara Steiner and Mrs. Emil S. Davis; one brother, Frank Steiner, all of Chattanooga.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's favorite charity.
OBITUARY
(From "The Chattanooga Times," Sunday, March 26, 1972: pages A1-A2)
EDWARD F. STEINER DEAD; BUSINESS, CIVIC LEADER 73
Edward Francis Steiner, for many years a business and civic leader in Chattanooga, died Saturday afternoon in a Chattanooga hospital. He was 73.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church with Msgr. Francis P. Pack officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Herbert Haile Jr., Pete Page, Carl L. Gibson, Joseph P. Nolan, James A. Davis and Hugh A. Brown. They are asked to meet at Turner Funeral Home Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Steiner was a soft-drink bottling plant and advertising executive, chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority 10 years and a veteran of World War I and the Mexican border incident of 1916.
Mr. Steiner was born here Oct. 25, 1898, the second of four children of Edward Francis and Anna Heiny Steiner. He attended school at Notre Dame but quit after finishing the sixth grade to go to work because his father had died.
He started working in grocery stores and soda fountains but before he retired in 1964 he had, with several associates, held substantial interests in some half-dozen successful business ventures.
In 1928 he obtained an Orange Crush bottling franchise and in 1932 formed a partnership with Carl Gibson which continued through a much expanded soft-drink operation and into an advertising business.
Steiner and Gibson added a Grapette bottling franchise to their line and gradually, with other associates, acquired a Grapette bottling plant in Knoxville and 7-Up bottling rights in Cleveland and Jasper, Tenn; Aiken, S. C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Dalton, Augusta and Athens, Ga., and Charleston, Huntington and Wheeling, W. Va.
Then Steiner and Gibson started building their own advertising billboards. They bought out Packer Advertising Co. and in 1950, with the advent of soft-drink vending machines, sold most of their bottling interests and started Lookout Advertising Co. Because Steiner wanted to retire they sold out their billboards in 1964. He continued as vice president of Ruby Falls.
While chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority Steiner served as a national director of the National Housing Conference.
He was a past director of the Chattanooga chapter, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and also was a national director of that organization.
He was on the board of the Council of Community Forces, was one of the founders of the Serra club in Chattanooga and was on the board of the USO here. He attained the fourth degree, the highest echelon of the Knights of Columbus, and served as Grand Knight. He was a warden of his church, Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic.
His civic work extended to the Experiment in International Living, which he served as president and secretary here. He had been a board member of the Half-Century Club, president of the Notre Dame Athletic Club and secretary of the Notre Dame High School building committee.
In World War I, Steiner was with the 117th Infantry medical unit which was in fierce fighting along the Western front. He was with a British division when it finally broke the Hindenburg Line.
Returning home he joined the American Legion and held several offices in the Legion and "40 et 8."
He married Myra Weidner in June 1925.
Besides his wife Steiner is survived by two sons, Edward F. Steiner, Jr. and Jack Steiner of Chattanooga; and five daughters, Sister Catherine Steiner of Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Ann Hendee, Mrs. Shirley Prey, Mrs. Lloyd Knott and Mrs. Carole Tubbs of Chattanooga; 22 grandchildren; two sisters, Miss Barbara Steiner and Mrs. Emil S. Davis; one brother, Frank Steiner, all of Chattanooga.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's favorite charity.
(From "The Chattanooga Times," Sunday, March 26, 1972: pages A1-A2)
EDWARD F. STEINER DEAD; BUSINESS, CIVIC LEADER 73
Edward Francis Steiner, for many years a business and civic leader in Chattanooga, died Saturday afternoon in a Chattanooga hospital. He was 73.
Funeral services will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church with Msgr. Francis P. Pack officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Herbert Haile Jr., Pete Page, Carl L. Gibson, Joseph P. Nolan, James A. Davis and Hugh A. Brown. They are asked to meet at Turner Funeral Home Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Steiner was a soft-drink bottling plant and advertising executive, chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority 10 years and a veteran of World War I and the Mexican border incident of 1916.
Mr. Steiner was born here Oct. 25, 1898, the second of four children of Edward Francis and Anna Heiny Steiner. He attended school at Notre Dame but quit after finishing the sixth grade to go to work because his father had died.
He started working in grocery stores and soda fountains but before he retired in 1964 he had, with several associates, held substantial interests in some half-dozen successful business ventures.
In 1928 he obtained an Orange Crush bottling franchise and in 1932 formed a partnership with Carl Gibson which continued through a much expanded soft-drink operation and into an advertising business.
Steiner and Gibson added a Grapette bottling franchise to their line and gradually, with other associates, acquired a Grapette bottling plant in Knoxville and 7-Up bottling rights in Cleveland and Jasper, Tenn; Aiken, S. C.; Huntsville, Ala.; Dalton, Augusta and Athens, Ga., and Charleston, Huntington and Wheeling, W. Va.
Then Steiner and Gibson started building their own advertising billboards. They bought out Packer Advertising Co. and in 1950, with the advent of soft-drink vending machines, sold most of their bottling interests and started Lookout Advertising Co. Because Steiner wanted to retire they sold out their billboards in 1964. He continued as vice president of Ruby Falls.
While chairman of the Chattanooga Housing Authority Steiner served as a national director of the National Housing Conference.
He was a past director of the Chattanooga chapter, National Conference of Christians and Jews, and also was a national director of that organization.
He was on the board of the Council of Community Forces, was one of the founders of the Serra club in Chattanooga and was on the board of the USO here. He attained the fourth degree, the highest echelon of the Knights of Columbus, and served as Grand Knight. He was a warden of his church, Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic.
His civic work extended to the Experiment in International Living, which he served as president and secretary here. He had been a board member of the Half-Century Club, president of the Notre Dame Athletic Club and secretary of the Notre Dame High School building committee.
In World War I, Steiner was with the 117th Infantry medical unit which was in fierce fighting along the Western front. He was with a British division when it finally broke the Hindenburg Line.
Returning home he joined the American Legion and held several offices in the Legion and "40 et 8."
He married Myra Weidner in June 1925.
Besides his wife Steiner is survived by two sons, Edward F. Steiner, Jr. and Jack Steiner of Chattanooga; and five daughters, Sister Catherine Steiner of Philadelphia, Mrs. Mary Ann Hendee, Mrs. Shirley Prey, Mrs. Lloyd Knott and Mrs. Carole Tubbs of Chattanooga; 22 grandchildren; two sisters, Miss Barbara Steiner and Mrs. Emil S. Davis; one brother, Frank Steiner, all of Chattanooga.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's favorite charity.
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