STEVENS, Jeanette Florence 1902 - 1962

STEVENS, ENGLAND, BARDSLEY, BOOMHOWER, CRABB, FOLSOM

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/28/2013 at 10:03:04

FUNERAL OF MRS. STEVENS IS SATURDAY

JEANETTE FLORENCE STEVENS - SEPTEMBER 9, 1902 – DECEMBER 5, 1962

CLEAR LAKE – Funeral services for Mrs. Lyle Stevens, 60,will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Methodist Church with Dr. John DeLong officiating. Mrs. Stevens died Wednesday morning at a Mason City hospital.

Burial will be in Mount Vernon Cemetery , south of Clear Lake. The Ward Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Jeanette Florence Stevens was born Sept. 9, 1902, at Swaledale to E. E. and Mary (England) Bardsley. She attended country school and was graduated in 1921 from Clear Lake High School. After attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, she taught country schools near Clear Lake.

June 27, 1923, she was married to Lyle S. Stevens in the Little Brown Church at Nashua. They farmed south of Clear Lake three years before moving to town. From 1945 to 1948 they operated the Meservy general store.

Mrs. Stevens was associated with her husband in operating Foodland from 1950 until 1957 and from November 1961 until November 1962, when they purchased the King-Koin Laundromat in Mason City.

She was a member of the Methodist Church and Sorosis Club and a past president of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service.

Survivors include her husband, one son, Gerald E.; five brothers, John Bardsley, Monte Azano, Wash.; Irving Bardsley, Clarksville, Tenn.; and Earl, Richard and Floyd Bardsley, all of Clear Lake; three sisters, Mrs. M. W. Boomhower, Bernice Crabb, and Mrs. Larry Folsom, all of Mason City, and four granddaughters.