Ada Katherine Steel-Mortenson

Ada Katherine Steel-Mortenson, daughter of Benjamin J. Steel and Maudie Jewell Reynolds-Steel was born on the 4th of August in the year 1928 in Ryan, Oklahoma and went to see her two sons and her mom and dad who’ve been waiting for her in heaven on Wednesday, November 12, 2014.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Biggers Funeral Chapel. Interment will be in Ash Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Saturday at Biggers Funeral Home.

Mother was a colorful person. Near the end of her life when she was in the ICU, she told her granddaughter Cera to “Go get the bread out of the oven before it burns!” Mother’s life revolved around cooking, taking care of children, and work. Mother married Nathan Berry and blessed us with Debbie, Eddie, and Connie. Throughout her life she fostered and took in a multitude of unwed mothers and homeless children, and dinner was on the table every night at 6 o’clock. She married Dick Wells, where she adopted Mark and Kellie. After Dick passed away, Mother later married James Richard Mortenson, Master Seargant of the United States Air Force retired, who became the father of all of us. Mother was happiest when there was a homeful of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and all of her friends that seemed to appear. She always had a jar of sourdough biscuit starter, food on the stove and would always say “We can always add another cup of water and feed two more people.” Her greatest passion in her later years was sewing and upholstery. One of her children’s most embarrassing moments was getting a chair off the side of the road that she would later upholster and sell. We gave her the name “Ada Flo” because she was sassy and would tell you off in a heartbeat. Mother built the house that she passed in fifty years ago. She passed in her bedroom surrounded by pictures of her loved ones and family. She would always tell her grandchildren that when she got to heaven she would hang the stars every night.