Major Erle Addison Steiss

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• Interesting: life story, military
• Military: Canadian Army - Intelligence Service
• Military: WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-111899
• Residence: 1911, Heidelberg, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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Erle A. Steiss Dies Age 49

Erle Addison Steiss, manager of the investment department of the Canada Trust Company and Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation, died suddenly yesterday in Toronto Western Hospital. Mr. Steiss, in his 50th year, suffered a brain hemorrhage in Toronto Saturday morning. He came to London in 1946, after five years overseas with the rank of major in the Canadian Army intelligence service in World War II.

Previously in his career he had been instructor of accounting at Harvard University at Boston from 1929 to 1931; was with Standard Statistics, New York City, 1931 to 1933; and was assistant to the president, Canadian General Investments, 1933 to 1941, when he entered the army. He came to London in July, 1946, as investment department manager with the old London and Western Trust organization, which the same year was amalgamated with the Huron and Erie Corporation and Canada Trust Company. He was a regular lecturer at the School of Business Administration, University of Western Ontario. The only child of J. Albert and Ada May Steiss, he was born at Heidelburg, [sic] near Kitchener, and was educated at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate, the University of Toronto and Harvard University.

Mr. Steiss was a member of the Anglican Church of St. John the Evangelist; past director of Forest City Kiwanis Club; president of the London branch of the Institute of International Affairs; member of the London Club and Canadian Club, in London and the Albany Club, Eglinton Hunt Club and Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto; and in 1941 was vice-president of the Canadian Club in Toronto. Surviving besides his parents are his wife, the former Jean Schneider, whom he married in 1947, and two small daughters, Janet and Deborah. He lived at RR 6, London. The body is resting at the George E. Logan and Sons funeral home here until tomorrow. A service will be held at eight o'clock tomorrow night in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, and the funeral will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Dreisinger funeral home, Elmira, with burial in Heidelburg Cemetery. The Very Rev. Archdeacon C. W. Foreman, rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, will officiate at both services

London Free Press 12 Apr 1955

Erle married Jean E. Schneider 1947. Jean (daughter of Herbert H. Schneider and Edna Lichty) was born 1924, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Apr 2001, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hillside United Cemetery, Wellesley Twp, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]