A Deseret News notice published on 12 July 1994 records that Wilford Woodruff Steed was born on 26 June 1904 in Syracuse, Utah, to Walter William Steed and Susan Alice Belle Clark, and that he died at home in Sandy, Utah, on 10 July 1994, at the age of 90. The funeral was held on 12 July at the Leroy S. Johnson meeting house in Colorado City, Arizona, with interment at Isaac Carling Memorial Park. The notice says he was preceded in death by his wives Ellen Mitchell and Zavenda Allen and by a son, Joseph. It also says he was survived by other wives; those later survivors are not named or described here.1

He was a brother of Newel Steed (1902–1989). Newel’s 1989 obituary lists among the survivors “W. W. Steed, Sandy.”2 The 16 October 1960 speaker introduced as Gerold Steed is likely Newel’s son, and so Woodruff’s nephew; that identification is discussed on the page for Gerold Steed and is not treated as a confirmed vital fact here.

In this archive the 16 October 1960 recording made at a general meeting in the Zitting home in Salt Lake City is labeled Woodruff Steed. The opening of the recording names him.3