STEVENS, FRANCIS J.

STEVENS, PAUSTIAN, SMITH, GRANDHEIM

Posted By: Richard Carstensen (email)
Date: 2/8/2003 at 10:48:21

Francis Stevens 07/24/1999 LONG GROVE, Iowa -- Services for Francis J. Stevens, of rural Long Grove, will be 10 a.m. Monday at Schultz Funeral Home, DeWitt. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, DeWitt, with military graveside rites by Eugene McManus American Legion Post 4238. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Mr. Stevens died Thursday, July 22, 1999, at his home. Francis had worked as a carpenter and plumber and retired in 1978 as an assembler for J. I. Case. He was born Feb. 14, 1916, in Wick. During World War II, he served in the Army and was involved in the African Invasion. He was a prisoner of war for 2 1/2 years. Survivors include sisters, Margaret Grace Paustian, Bettendorf, Martha Smith, DeWitt, and Gloria Grandheim, St. James, Minn.; and a brother, LaVerne, DeWitt.