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Subject: [TNANDERS-L] Obit From the Knoxville News Sentinel 15 Jul 2002
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:32:04 EDT
>From The Knoxville News Sentinel 15 Jul 2002
STEPHENSON, LILLIAM P. "MOMMA BEAR" - age 87, passed away Saturday, July 13,
2002 at the Windwood Health Care Center. She was a member of Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church in Dutch Valley where she had been a former Sunday school
teacher. She was a former bookkeeper for Portwood Cleaner, Hoskins Drug
Store, Cinderella Beauty Shop and Queener Flower Shop and in later years, she
worked as bookkeeper for her two sons at Stephenson Reality & Auction and
Blind Ambitions. She was a 1932 graduate of Greenville Business College in
Greenville, South Carolina. Preceded in death by husband, Garven R.
Stephenson; parents, William & Lula Ramsey Peay; sisters, Betty Ray, Connie
Roddy & Hazel Peay. Momma Bear was born August 3, 1914 in Chester County,
South Carolina. Survivors: sons, William "Bear" Stephenson of Clinton, Warren
Stephenson of Clinton; sister, Pauline Cooper of Chester, SC; brother, Bobby
H. Clack & wife, Betty Faye of Oak Ridge; several nieces & nephews. The
family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Monday July 15, 2002 at Holley-Gamble
Funeral Home in Clinton. Funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with Rev. David Hanes officiating. The body will
lie in state one hour prior to the service at the church. interment will
follow the service at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Memorials may be
made to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, 510 Old Dutch Valley Road, Clinton,
Tenn. 37716. Holley-Gamble Funeral Home of Clinton in charge of all
arrangements.
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