Jim Stephenson

This page represents the information that I have collected about my father. That includes pictures over his life, but they are in no certain order. Mostly they are placed here as I found them from several sources. My father was married 5 times during his life. The first marriage ended in divorce after only three months with no children. There will be more information about this later. Several years later he married my mother and was with her for about 35 years before getting a divorce. Two of the women he had known in his younger days and the last one he had known most of his life. All three divorced him. When he had health problems, my mother continued to help him and they continued to be on good terms. I say this, because it is all part of his life--the good and the bad. My father was a good man, even if he had his faults. He raised six children with my mother and taught all of us to be good people, honest, and hard working. In that they succeeded.


Walter James "Jim" Stephenson May 29, 1991 Age 73 Animated	Walter James Stephenson August 1986	Walter James Stephenson Maybe 1930s

Lucille Stephenson Stanley Edna Stephenson McCoy Jim Stephenson Grace Stephenson Fendley December 1983 my father with his sisters	Lucille Stephenson Stanley Jim Stephenson Edna Stephenson McCoy Robena Stephenson Watts My father with his sisters	Jim Stephenson Charlie Stephnson brothers - Maybe 1980s

My father enjoyed playing the fiddle All relatives in the room	On the back side of the previous picture	Gary Stephenson, grandson Jim Stephenson, grandfather Brenna Stephenson, granddaughter Henry Stephenson, son Tessa Stephenson, granddaughter David Stephenson, son December 1990

Jim Stephenson, grandfather Tessa Stephenson, granddaughter Brenna Stephenson, granddaughter December 1990	Kermit Stanley Jewel Waldrop Roland Waldrop Jewel Stephenson Jim Stephenson Lucille Stanley unknown child	Jim Stephenson Nathan Lenzy Fendley-nephew

Julie Litton, granddaughter Jim Stephenson, grandfather December 1987	Charlie Stephenson Jim Stephenson unknown Nathan Stephenson Robena Stephenson John Stephenson maybe 1930s	Walter James Stephenson Walter Jerome Yarbrough William Penn Yarbrough Jerome and Penn are sons of my father's first cousin William Jenkins Yarbrough maybe 1980s
		Documents
Back row-Charlie Stephenson, Nathan Stephenson, Walter Stephenson, Annie Stephenson, Edna Stephenson, Grace Stephenson Front row-John Stephenson, Jim Stephenson, Robena Stephenson, Lucille Stephenson-- maybe 1948	The man appears to be my father, Walter James Stephenson, but no family members can identify any of the others	These are documents that I found from my father's life
	Our Dad's Head Injury
Walter James (Jim) Stephenson Grace Stephenson Fendley Loucille Stephenson Stanley Edna Stephenson McCoy my father & three sisters maybe 1960s	Our father had a significant head injury from a horse kick at age 16, and my sister, Carolyn, wrote about it.	Jim Stephenson (Jenk's father) loved to play the fiddle - Maybe 1970s at the Sumac house
		My Father Animated
Walter James Stephenson-Jenk's father Social Security Card	Late in life my father married Winna Mae Walsh who had apparently been a girl friend at a young age	Walter James "Jim" Stephenson May 29, 1991 Age 73
		Head Injury
Back Row-Julie Litton Williamson, Marc Stephenson, Brenna Stephenson, Gary Stephenson, Jason Litton Front Row-Tessa Stephenson Brasier, Beth Stephenson Blake--grandkids of Jim Stephenson - late 1980s	Lavern Rich Cox (my Mom's sister) and Jim Stephenson Jenk's aunt and father maybe the 1950s	My sister, Carolyn Stephenson, wrote about his head injury.
1940 Draft Lottery	Espuela, Texas	My father's first marriage
My father was never in WWII. I think it was because of his head injury or because they needed some farmers at home.	When I was a small boy I remember my dad driving by the site of where Espuela used to be. I really don't recall anything that he said.	I knew that my father had been married once before, but I had no information until I found this, long after both parents had passed on.

My father's recognition plaque from the City of Lubbock upon his retirement.	My father, Jim Stephenson	My father's recognition plaque from the City of Lubbock upon his retirement.

Jim Stephenson - Robena Watts brother and sister Making music, because that is what we did at family gatherings	Robena McCoy Tooke - niece Jim Stephenson - uncle	I often paid my father's bills in his last years - this is just one example I ran across.

My dad's tombstone - May 14, 2021	McAdoo Cemetery - May 14, 2021	Henry Stephenson - son Jim Stephenson - father about 1957
		Jim Stephenson's Album
Rummy Rumfield - neighbor farmer Jim Stephenson maybe 1940s	My father, Jim Stephenson, had AARP Insurance later in life	This was his small album that I found

Walter James "Jim" Stephenson