The Rev. Hugh Higgs and the Rev. Gene Latshaw will officiate. Burial will be in Washburn Prairie Cemetery. The family will receive friends after 7 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home.
Mr. Stephens, a sawmill owner and operator, was born May 21, 1915, and was a lifelong resident of the Washburn area. He was a member of the Mission Baptist Church near Washburn.
Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Thelma (Babe) Stephens; five sons; two daughters; four brothers, Elmer Stephens, Sperry, Okla., Leon Stephens and Onza Stephens, both of Washburn, and Joe Stephens, Drexel, Mo.; four sisters, Mrs. Vesta Weathers, Sperry, Okla., Mrs. Emily Privet, Washburn, Ms. Avo Pie, Granby, Mo., and Mrs. Thelma Anderson, Bakersfield, Calif., and two grandchildren.
Research Note: From the scrape book of Florence Patterson Rose. (Dec 30, 1977 hand written on top of obit. Son of Daniel Jefferson Stephens and Margaret Ann Pendergraft.)
The Rev. Hugh Higgs and the Rev. Gene Latshaw will officiate. Burial will be in Washburn Prairie Cemetery. The family will receive friends after 7 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home.
Mr. Stephens, a sawmill owner and operator, was born May 21, 1915, and was a lifelong resident of the Washburn area. He was a member of the Mission Baptist Church near Washburn.
Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Thelma (Babe) Stephens; five sons; two daughters; four brothers, Elmer Stephens, Sperry, Okla., Leon Stephens and Onza Stephens, both of Washburn, and Joe Stephens, Drexel, Mo.; four sisters, Mrs. Vesta Weathers, Sperry, Okla., Mrs. Emily Privet, Washburn, Ms. Avo Pie, Granby, Mo., and Mrs. Thelma Anderson, Bakersfield, Calif., and two grandchildren.
Research Note: From the scrape book of Florence Patterson Rose. (Dec 30, 1977 hand written on top of obit. Son of Daniel Jefferson Stephens and Margaret Ann Pendergraft.)
Family Members
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Elmer H Stephens
1901–1988
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Vesta L Stephens Weathers
1904–1997
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John Samuel Stephens
1907–1976
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Leon Marion Stephens
1910–1996
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Emily L Stephens Privett
1913–1988
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Avo I. Stephens Poe-Shannon
1917–2009
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Thelma Lorene Stephens Anderson
1920–1999
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Onza Kenneth Stephens
1923–1987
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Vernon Paul Stephens
1925–1958
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Gralie Joe Stephens
1929–2009
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