Keshawn Datavis Steele

KESHAWN DATAVIS STEELE, 20 of MT. Gilead, NC , passed away Monday, September 23, 2019, at First Health / Montgomery Hospital, Troy, NC.

Funeral Services will be held  2:00 pm Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at the Snow Hill AME Zion Church, 204 Snow Hill Church Rd., MT. Gilead, NC. Keshawn remains will lie in repose 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at the church prior to the service.

Interment will follow in the church cemetery.  Harris Funeral Home and Cremations of MT. Gilead, NC is serving the Steele, McKinney and extended families.

Keshawn Datavis Steele (MCG Caliban), was born on Friday, January 1, 1999  in Stanly County, North Carolina to Tyron Urick Steele and Tawanda Slimika McKinney of Mt. Gilead, NC.

Keshawn was a graduate of West Montgomery High School, where he was a stand out football player in 2017.

He was well known in his community and was a happy and energetic person who never met a stranger.  One of the greatest hip hop musician in the game that had a future so bright that his music will forever live in our hearts.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents; Mildred McKinney and Charles Leak; paternal grandparent, Robert Lee Knight, and Aggie Collins.

Those who survive who will treasure his memories, are his parents, Tyron Steele and Tawanda McKinney of the home; siblings, Tyron Steele, Jr.,Tydrell Steele of Mt. Gilead, NC and Ashley Smith of Asheboro, NC; grandparents, Catherine Bennett and Bobby Bennett of Greensboro, NC, Jerry Dunlap (Tresha) of Kannapolis,NC and Lena Mae Steele of Mt. Gilead, NC; great-grandparents, Walter Sonny Dunlap and Virginia Mae Dunlap of Norwood, NC; 3 uncles, 11 aunts, niece, Shekinah Smith of Asheboro, NC and a host of cousins, other relatives and close friend, Jalen Russell.