- Date Of Birth: November 15, 1934
- Date Of Death: December 23, 2016
- State: Idaho
Raphael (Ray) John Steinhoff
Ray Steinhoff passed away peacefully Friday, December 23, 2016 at Guardian Angels Homes in Lewiston after many years battling with vascular dementia. He was born November 15, 1934 in Wilton, Wisconsin, to Henry and Gertrude (McCann). He attended grade school and high school in Wilton, and then studied a few semesters at Marquette University in Milwaukee prior to serving in Korea with the Army Corps of Engineers. After his discharge, he moved to Moscow to study forestry at the University of Idaho, where he received a B.S. in 1959. He then pursued graduate work in forestry, first at North Carolina State University (M.S. 1961) and then at Michigan State University (Ph.D. 1964). It was at Lansing, where Ray met and fell in love with Jeanne Joubert, a fellow graduate student at MSU. They were married at Fort Benton, Montana on June 14, 1962. One year later the union was blessed with the first of the couple’s six children.
