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Neece Steel Corporation was a Oklahoma based steel fabrication company specializing in heat exchangers and other products for the oil industry. The company was formed 19 August 1966 by Charles Jack Neece and was dissolved in 1980. Privately held, Charles Jack Neece acted as President from 1966 to his death in 1975. He was followed by Reuben D. Stewart until the company was dissolved in 1980. Other principles included Lois E. (Neece) Cunningham, who acted as Secretary and Treasurer throughout the life of the company.

Originally located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the company moved it's operation to 6700 Amah Parkway, Claremore OK in 1971. The new location provided direct and easy access to the McClellan–Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System Waterway as well as the Sante Fe Railline, allowing the company to provide larger finished goods directly to their customers, many of which where in the Gulf areas of Texas and Louisianna.

One of the company's largest contracts was to provided a number of products as part of the rebuilding effort subsequent to series of refinery explosions in Texas City, TX in 1978.

Charles Jack Neece was born in Ft. Smith, Arkansas in 1919 and moved to Tulsa in the 1930s. He Married Lois Edna Wolfe on xxxxxxx. After serving in both the US Merchant Marine and US Army during WWII he worked various jobs before his employment with Birmingham Steel as a salesman.

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