Jacqueline Y. Steiner

Jacqueline Y. Steiner, 73, died August 19, 2003, in Prescott, Arizona, of cancer recurring after brain surgery and chemical and radiation treatments "Jacque" Yelland was born November 4, 1929, in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts in Education. At Stanford she met her husband of 51 years, attorney Frederick K. Steiner, Jr., married him in 1952 and came to Arizona in that year to teach English at West Phoenix and Phoenix Union High Schools, raise a family, and begin a long career of public and community service, particularly in the realm of children's issues. She served in the Arizona State Legislature as a Representative 1976-1980 and as a Senator from 1981-1990. Among her many achievements, honors, board memberships and recognitions, she was named Valley Leadership Woman of the Year in 1999, received the Children's Action Alliance Horace Steele Child Advocacy Award in 1991, the National Association of Child Advocates Volunteer Child Advocate Award in 1998, the MIKID Sue Gilbertson Award in 2002, the Girl Scouts-Cactus-Pine Council Alice Lord Marshall Community Service Award in 1996, and in 2001 the highest National award in Girl Scouting, the "Thanks" Badge. From 1987 to 2003 she was President of the Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council. She served as President of Children's Action Alliance, the Phoenix Women's Club, the Phoenix Junior League, Friendly House, and the Grace Lutheran Church Council. From 1991 to 1995 she was Executive Director of the Arizona-School-to-Work Partnership. She was a member of the National Association of Child Advocates, the Arizona Juvenile Justice Commission, the Ad Hoc Legislative Committee of Child Protective Services, the Community Punishment Advisory Committee, the Arizona Commission for Judicial Performance Review, Jobs for Arizona's Graduates, NAU Center for Excellence in Education State Advisory Council, Arizona Historical Society, Arizona Historical Foundation and Friendly House Foundation. She belonged to Phoenix Charter 100, the Board of Visitors, Arizona Women's Forum and the Arizona Town Hall. She is survived by her husband, Fred Steiner, Jr., three children, Frederick K. Steiner, III, Katherine Koenig, and Ann Green, and by six grandchildren, Alice Steiner, Frederick Steiner IV, Killian Koenig, Kelsy Koenig, Michael ("Gator") Green and Angus ("Turtle") Green. A memorial service will be held at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 1500 W. Maryland Ave., Phoenix, Arizona, at 11 a.m. August 29th. Flowers may be sent to Shepherd of the Valley Church or contributions made to Grace Lutheran Church, 1124 N. 3rd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus Pine Council, 119 E. Coronado, Phoenix, AZ 85004, Children's Action Alliance, 4001 N. 3rd Street, Suite 160, Phoenix, AZ, 85012 or to a cause or charity of choice.