DICKENS (Special) - Services for Gracie Pearl Stephenson, 65, of Alto will be at 3 p.m. today in First Baptist Church here with the Rev. C. L. Atkinson, pastor, officiating.Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home of Spur.
Mrs. Stephenson died at 11:30 a.m. Monday in Nacogdoches Medical Center following a lengthy illness.
She was a native of Franklin County,Ark., and married Charlie Stephenson March 15, 1940, in Dickens. They moved to Lubbock in 1958 and to Alto four years ago.
Survivors include her husband; three sons, Monroe of Roshell, James of Cushing and Barney of Alto; a daughter, Bonnie Hawkins of Shallowater, four brothers, Charlie Gage and Monroe Gage, both of Afton, Riddley Glen Gage of Dallas and Gene Gage of Sherman; two sisters, Bessie Donavan of Phoenix, Ariz., and Ruth Winfield of Delta, Utah; 12 grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Clay Edwards, J.W. Vickrye, Jr., Jerry Took, Jerry Gage, Tom Stephenson and Henry Stephenson.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, February 16, 1981
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