ROSA AMELIA⁶ FAUS (REUBEN ROLAND PAUL⁵, GEORGE WEICKER⁴, WILLIAM DELONG³, HENRY (II)², HENRY I¹) was born December 02, 1930 in Dennis place spearman TX, and died May 27, 1996 in Amarillo TX Buried Ochiltree Cemetery Perryton TX. She married (1) JAMES FRANKLIN PIERCE November 28,  in Spearman TX, son of ROBERT PIERCE and OLA. He was born 1929 in Riverside Calif Thermole Calif, and died 1990 in Denver Colorado. She married (2) JOHN STEELE January 14, 1972, son of MARY STEELE. He was born July 20, 1930.

Notes for ROSA AMELIA FAUS:

Rosa Faus Pierce Steele

I was born on my Grandpa Hibb's Ranch North of Spearman, TX, December 2, 1930. When I was three, we moved east of town to the Dennis Place. Now 43 years later in Veronica, Oregon, population 1,700 I live three blocks from Jo Dennis! Granda Faus Carried the mail. I went with him often. Sometimes I went the complete route, sometimes I stopped off at Grandpa Hibb's going home the next mail day. Then, the mail went out three days a week. I learned to drive at the age of five sitting on Grandpa's lap, steering and shifting gears. When Daddy first got Electricity in the Boot Shop the whole family went down that night to turn the lights on. Those lights were so bright. When I was eight, Mamma took over the Spearman Hotel. We kids hated living in that hotel. We had to be so quite, so clean, and make the fastest trips possible to the bathroom. There was only one bathroom for the whole hotel. December 7, 1941 I was in the Boot Shop, listening to the radio, we were at war. I'll never forget, I was so scared. In the spring we moved to Amarillo, TX, living there through the War years. In the summer of  we moved back to Spearman. That summer I met and Married James (Jim) Pierce. For the next several years I lived the life of a nomad, moving on the average of three times a year. Our first two sons were born in Dimmitt, TX. Franklin Lee born June 27, , and Roy Paul born May 31, . Our third and fourth sons were born in Spearman, David Lloyd born August 7 , and James Michael Born January 17 . Our fifth and sixth sons were born while we lived in Perris, California--Calvin Douglas born January 27 , and Richard Dean born June 22 . In September , Jim and I were divorced and I had to start supporting a family. I went to work as a community center Aide in . In 1971 I had advanced to Community Coordinator. In 1972 I was County Program Director, directing Youth Program, County Community Centers, and Committee for Progress through Law. In 1971 I met John Steele, we married 1972, and I resigned my job and went back to being a wife and a mother. Together we have 11 children, 15 grandchildren, and 15 foster children. John had a disabling back injury, so I am employed again as a Community School Coordinator. July 30 1978, one of my precious sons, Calvin Pierce, was killed by a hit and run driver as he sat beside the road. Frank will finish college in June this year. Roy is working in the world's largest nuclear plant in Illinois. He has three sons, Kevin, Ryan, and Jeffery. David works in a Crowne Zellarbach Paper Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon, he has two children, a girl, Lisa, and a boy Dustin. Mike and Richard are working in the oil fields in Oklahoma. John and I are planning to move to Spearman, hopefully in the summer or fall of 1979. Editors note:  Rosie and John Steele did move back to the panhandle but over to GAGE OK to be near her mother.  My mom had had cancer since 1990 and passed away in Aug 1995. Unfortunately my Aunt Rosie was diagnosed that same year with a particularly virulent form of cancer and she passed away a short 6 months or so after my mom.  John Steele still lives in Gage OK, and my Grandmother Julia Hibbs Faus McManus lives next door to him. Rosie's oldest son Frank Pierce is living with John but has recently bought a small house in Gage.  John and Julia both live across the street from my Aunt Phyllis Mann and her husband Leroy. Rosie's  son  RICHARD DEAN PIERCE, drowned in Lake Meredith  close to Fritch TX. during a sudden thunderstorm.  He is  buried in Ochiltree Cemetery Perryton TX.

By Rosa Faus Steele Hansford County History Book pg. 277-278.

Obituary Rosa Faus Steele Ellis County Capital June 6 1996

Rosa Faus Steele

Rosa Faus Steele, 65, died Sunday May 26 196 in Amarillo TX.

Services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30 1996, Union Church of Spearman TX with the Rev. Curtis Torrance of Gage , Ok, Assisted by Rev Kenneth Smith of Amarillo, officiating. Burial was in the Ochiltree Cemetery at Perryton, TX, by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Spearman TX.

Mrs. Steele was born in Hansford County, TX., and attended schools in Spearman and Amarillo. She moved with her family to Oregon in . She married John Steele in 1972 at Vernonia, Or, and the couple moved to Gage Ok in 1994. Mrs. Steele was a homemaker and has worked as a computer operator for Tectronics Electronics before retiring in 1994. She was a lifelong member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Mrs. Steele was preceded in death by two sons, Calvin Pierce, Richard Pierce, and an infant daughter; a sister, Juanita pierce; and her father, Ruben Pierce.

Survivors included her husband, John Steele; four sons, Frank Pierce of Vernonia, Or, Roy Pierce of Zion Ill., Dave Pierce of Clatskanie, Or, and Michael Pierce of Gage Ok; a foster son, Jim Richards of Vernonia Or; three stepsons; two stepdaughters; her mother, Julia Faus McManus of Gage, OK; Three sisters, Bertha Willison, Ruby Saltness, and Phyllis Mann all of Gage OK. a brother, Harry Faus of Fountain Valley CA; 15 grandchildren,and numerous great grandchildren.

Memorial may be made to St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center in Amarillo TX

Notes for JAMES FRANKLIN PIERCE:

Children of ROSA FAUS and JAMES PIERCE are:

42. i. FRANKLIN LEE⁷ PIERCE, b. June 27, .
Died 2008 Amarillo Texas VA hospital
brain aneurism  Cremated.
Service Held in Shattuck OK.
http://www.ldpierce.com/frank_pierce.html

43. ii. ROY PAUL PIERCE, b. May 31, , Dimmit Texas.

44. iii. DAVID LLOYD PIERCE, b. August 07, .

45. iv. JAMES MICHAEL PIERCE, b. January 17, . Died 2010 of cancer. Cremated. service held in Shattuck OK
http://www.ldpierce.com/james_michael_pierce.html

v. CALVIN DOUGLAS PIERCE, b. Bet.  - , Paris Ca;
d. July 30, 1978, Vernonia Or.

46. vi. RICHARD DEAN PIERCE, b. ; d. May 30, 1987, drowned lake Meredith Fritch TX buried Ochiltree Cemetery
Perryton TX.