Steven D. Powell
Steven D. Powell, 46 of Tipton died at 11:35 p.m. on Monday, October 8, 2018 at Miller’s Merry Manor in Tipton. Steve was born in Tipton on October 2, 1972 to Rex A. & Jo Anna (Weber) Powell. On September 12, 1998 he married Shelly L. Marusik and she survives. Steve had lived in Milwaukee from 1997-2000.
Steve was a Quality Control Supervisor at Chrysler and had worked there 18 years. He also worked for Indiana Bikecab. He was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Moose Lodge, Elks and the Knights of Columbus. Steve graduated from Tipton High School in 1991 and Purdue University in 1995 where he played football for the Boilermakers. He was a member of the John Purdue Club.
Biking, weight-lifting and football were his passions. He had also enjoyed hunting and fishing. Steve had coached Track & Field and Football at Tipton High School and was very youth-oriented. He had been a member of the Tipton Community Theater.
Survivors besides his wife Shelly include three children, Michael and wife Anne, Kokomo and Madison and Andrew Powell, both at home; three grandchildren, Zakk, Jillian and Adeline; his parents, Jo Anna Powell, Tipton and Rex Powell and wife Nancy, Atlanta; two brothers, Don Powell and wife Kirsten, Frankfort, Illinois and Thomas Powell and wife Donna, Lenexa, Kansas; four step-sisters, Stephanie Dell and husband Kyle, Janelle Bradford and husband Travis, Tia Ley and Cindy Mills.
Steve is also survived by his extended family; sister-in-law Beth Marusik and husband Tim, Shelly’s grandmother Rosemary Marusik, aunts and uncles Mindy Overdorf and husband Bruce, Denny Weber and wife Janet, Joey Marusik and wife Bethany and Anne Westfahl and husband Dennis. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Louie & Helen Weber, Luther & Margaret Powell and Shelly’s grandfather, Joe Marusik.
The funeral mass for Steve will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 13 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 335 Mill Street, Tipton, with Rev. Dennis Goth presiding and burial to follow in St. John’s Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, also at the church, with a Wake Service starting at 7:00 p.m. and Rosary to follow. Young-Nichols Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Memorial contributions in Steve’s memory may be made to an education fund for his children in care of Encompass Credit Union, 201 N. Main Street, Tipton, Indiana, 46072.
I am so very sorry for your loss, I will keep your family in my thoughts and prayers. I hope all the good times you shared will help you through this difficult time.
May the LORD raise him up on Eagles wings so he can soar like an eagle where there is no more sorrow or pain. Our love and prayers are with the family during this difficult time. Rest in PEACE BIG STEVE.
No words can fill the empty space where Steve was in my heart and in the hearts of everyone who knew him. May the Lord give peace, comfort and rest to his parents, his wife, his children, siblings, cousins and aunts and uncles, friends, all who claimed him as their own. He was one of a kind.
Thanks, he’s my uncle. Big Steve strong, dang do I miss him, my name is Trevor Powell and I’m the child of my father Thomas Powell, his brother…
I am so very sorry for your loss, I will be keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers throughout the difficult days ahead. God bless you all.
Dear Powell family, I am so sorry for your loss. Please accept my condolences. You will be in my thoughts and prayers. Sincerely Susie
Your family are in our prayers. I’m proud to have Graduated with Steve at Tipton High School Class of “91”. He is like a brother to me. God Bless.
So sorry for your loss aid Steve he was a very great guy and a step- brother to me and wish that I would have been closer to him more. Be praying for u and your family.
I am so very sorry for your loss. May God continue to bless you and your family always. R.I.P. Steve Powell.
Jo Anna,so sorry for your loss
Steve as a great and inspiring man!
Prayers for Mike and his family as they mourn the loss of his dad. May the Lord bring you comfort and peace in this time.
May God hold you in his arms of comfort and love. Too soon to lose such an amazing father, husband, brother, son, nephew, and friend.
Jo Anna, I just wanted to extend my complete sympathy to you and your family and my complete condolences. Please ,know you are in my thoughts and prayers.
I am so sorry for your loss! My thoughts are with you and your family.
Sorry for the families loss. Steve was a character lots of laughter when he was near. I detasseled with steve aka smurf.
I feel for all who were there with Steve. What I knew about him he loved life and he fought this disease long and hard. He’s in a wonderful place now free of the pain he lived with and fought with everything he could muster. Rest in Peace
I am so very sorry for your loss. Please know the entire family is in my thoughts & prayers.
We are so saddened to learn of Steve’s passing. He made us smile from afar with his optimistic outlook on life, even with his diagnosis. Sending prayers and hugs to all of his family and friends. His memory will be kept alive within all of you. I’m sure he will be casting his contagious smile down from above. Much love during this difficult time.
Steve and I spoke each time we saw one another of the battle that cancer has put on us. Each of us who is faced with this harsh journey must endure strengths that bring us closer to God in amazing ways. Steve knew his where his journey would ultimately lead him. We smiled a special smile at one another because we always knew the struggles are real but that God is too! Be at peace my brother in HIS glorious hands. YOU ARE HEALED FOREVER✌️We shall dance in God’s glory with all our loved ones. May your family be at peace knowing this to be true.
Stevens family I want to extend my condolences to all you. Prayers are lifted up for all. Love &Peace in Christ fly high on the mountain Steve.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Prayers for you family for strength and comfort.
I miss you already. Thanks for being my friend. You will be missed.
Steve, it has been nothing but a true honor to befriend you, know you and learn from you. Fly high brother, I will not say goodbye, I will say, until we meet again. I love you and will carry your leagacy in memory close….
Holding all of the Powell family in thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. Rest now, dear Steve.
Oh Shelly I am so sorry to learn about this. My heart is just breaking for you. I never met Steve but I know you are soulmates, I can see it in the way you spoke of each other and by seeing photos of you together. You are both lucky to have found each other in this lifetime. Rest In Peace, Steve. <3
Steve was a great friend and neighbor. I have not met anyone with a heart or head the size of Steve’s. We will miss him.
We are keeping you in our thoughts as you go through this difficult time.
Hugs and love to the entire Powell family. We are so sorry for the loss of this gentle and kind soul. Sending cousin love from the entire Brown family in Cicero.
Rich and I send our deepest sympathy to the family. I admired Steve so much….he fought it so hard and lived every minute of life he had left with grace and never ending spirit…
I’m so sorry for your loss. May you all find peace & comfort in your love for Steve & his fight. May he Rest In Peace.
With Deepest Sympathy, Carlos & Catheryn Goins Family.
Jo Anna, so sorry to hear of steves passing, he was a fantastic man and great coach always had a smile on his face he will be greatly missed ! Much love Scott Bennington and Family
Prayers going out to the Powell family. I didn’t really know Steve well but he always seemed like a super sweet guy. He will be truly missed by his faith family at St. John’s and all who knew him. RIP, Steve. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
There are no words to describe how I feel about Steve’s passing. He was loved dearly by everyone that knew him and was a huge inspiration to all. As big as Steve was, his heart and sweet attitude were a hundred times bigger. Only here for a little while, in our hearts forever. You will be greatly missed with each passing day, Steve. My thoughts and prayers are with your entire family at this very difficult time. May peace and comfort be with you all everyday of this new journey without Steve..
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sorry for your loss.
so sorry for your loss sending love to you ,Jo Anna
Steve was an upperclassmen when I first met him. While his stature could be intimidating, as soon as he spoke to you, you were immediately put to ease. My best remembrances of Steve are LOL from his sense of humor, his respect for others and his focus. I am grateful to have reconnected with Steve via social media. I feel privileged to have been in his audience as he courageously documented the fight for his life. Steve’s strength and enormity of spirit are gifts I keep with me as I try to follow his example of being vulnerable while pursuing your best life. What an honor to have spent time on earth with you, Steve. Thank you! Love and peace, and sending warm thoughts and love to your family.
I feel so fortunate to have known Steve through coaching and our common bond of Purdue athletics and fellow Boilermaker friends. We both suffered through several rainy Hoosier Conference Track and Field Championships here at West Lafayette and it was amazing to see his positive affect on athletes as well as ANYONE around him. He carried that positive spirit throughout his health struggles and he never once thought that he would not win this battle. In the end he has indeed prevailed with the greatest gift of all, everlasting life! Thank you God for your gift of Steve Powell to us all.
Our deepest sympathies for the entire family. We will keep Steve in our thoughts and prayers, and add him to the prayer line at St Joan of Arc here in Phoenix.
To the Powell Family: “Death is nothing at all…I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me- let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well.”- Canon Henry Scott Holland Weeping may endure for a night, but the morning brings a shout of joy.-Ps. 30:5 God Bless you all and comfort you all. With sympathy, Cathy Ferguson
What a great loss our community and school system will endure.. Big Steve will be missed for sure !!! Blessings and comfort goes out to all his family and friends. Your smiling face will be missed everywhere!!! Lord please take special care of his wife and children. God Bless Steve Powell .
Joanna and family, My heart breaks for each of you. I have prayed for Big Steve as he did for Carol and me and I still have some of his texts. Steve was the epitome of strength, faith and love. His battle over the past two years has given so many of us the strength to keep going. Love to you all, Ellen and Kent
Steve was an unbelievable man that had a large impact on my life. Steve was my football and track coach back in high school at a time in my life when my aspirations and goals were lower than they should have been. Steve inspired me to dream bigger and achieve more. I am grateful to have had his influence at such a crucial time in my life and have no doubt that much of my past success is attributed to his leadership. My deepest condolences to the family. RIP Big Steve!
His son is my uncle and he was such a nice guy what he went through in that hospital is horrible Adeline is sadly too young to have her grandfather die and his son Andrew is sadly around ,11, witch is sad I never knew him well but still shed some tears thinking about him what he went through in that that hospital was sad and he deserves to be in heaven god rest his soul
R.I.P. You were a very sweet and loving uncle to me and will always be. Thanks for always being there for me. Love you lots and hope to see you in heaven some day. Love, Trevor Powell (Your Nephew)