Services were at 10 a. m. Saturday, April 13, 1968, at the Epworth Methodist Church.

Born in Vashon, Washington, he was graduated from Simpson College, Indianola, and Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. One of his former pastorates was Manning-Gray during 1934-36.

He was a Navy chaplain from 1944 to 1946.

He is survived by his wife, Helen; two sons, Norman, a student at Evanston, and Michael, of Moline, Illinois, and a daughter, Mary Karen, a student at Iowa State University in Ames.

The following poem was written by Rev. Steffenson.

It is entitled "God Is At An Altar"
God's at an altar in silence
Stunned by the actions of men,
Who have sown on the fields of hatred, and reaped, and are sowing again.
God's at an altar in silence,
For bullets, like nails, leave scars,
And the Good Shepherd suffers whenever,
His sheep forsake him for Mars.
God's at an altar - weeping,
Crushed by a war-maddened world
That prays for his blessings and curses, while death on his children is hurled.
God's at an altar - weeping, for the pitiful, pitiless men
God, looking down on his people, like Christ on Jerusalem.
God's at an altar - praying, to that power he does not control -
The power to choose good or evil,
That lies in the human soul. God's at an altar - praying,
To men that they murder no more,
To men whose hate-calloused spirits, are made deaf by the cannons of war.