Jimmy Steele
From Moriston Matters, Issue 23, February 1981.
The Glen entered 1981 under the shadow of the deaths of two of its native citizens - James Steele and Catherine Fraser. Jimmy Steele, who died on December 10th, grew up at the foot of Sron na Muic - at Woodpark. He worked hard all his life - at his employment during the day, and in his own time to improve Woodpark where he had the satisfaction of seeing a humble croft house transformed into a comfortable home for his family, and latterly the erection of a modern bungalow alongside it. His appetite for work sometimes made him seem a hard man, but the other side of his nature shone through in the garden of flowers he created from what was little more than a hillside. The colourful display throughout the summer months has given pleasure to many a passer-by, as did his outdoor Christmas tree decked with coloured bulbs long before the District Council thought of providing one. To a man of such activity illness and enforced idleness must have been hard to bear, but he faced it courageously, and to Jess and Raymond. Gordon and Lorna and their families who stood by him so well we offer our deep sympathy.