Stephens, Lyle R. 1911-1985
STEPHENS, ZIMMERMAN, BORCHERS
Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 2/5/2010 at 18:55:05
LYLE STEPHENS FUNERAL SUNDAY
Funeral for former State Rep. Lyle R. Stephens, 74, of rural LeMars will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Plymouth Presbyterian Church, rural LeMars.
Rev. Hatty Duncan will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home where a prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Mr. Stephens died Thursday (Nov. 21, 1985) at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Sioux City where he had been hospitalized a week. He had been in poor health for several years.
Stephens served in the Iowa Legislature from 1973 to 1978. He was a past Plymouth County Republican party chairman.
He was an international traveler to foster better relations and to promote agricultural trade. He traveled to Japan to promote good will and the sale of soybeans; helped to negotiate the Japanese Trainee Program between Japan and Iowa and to Torrion and Durango, Mexico, to promote better relations and to help Mexican farmers in those states to form their own farm organization.
Mr. Stephens was born June 23, 1911, at Aurora, S.D., to Roy and Ella Zimmerman Stephens. He farmed in Plymouth County all his life after receiving his education at LeMars High School and Western Union College in LeMars. He served in the Iowa National Guard.
His marriage to Marie Borchers took place at rural Akron Sept. 1, 1938.
He was lifelong member of Plymouth Presbyterian Church where he served as an elder and on the board of trustees. He was past chairman of the church building committee and a charter member of the Brotherhood.
Mr. Stephens was a past president of the Plymouth County Farm Bureau, serving 12 years as board director of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and seven years on the board of the Farm Service, Inc.
He was past chairman of the Plymouth County Fair Board and Extension Council, and was active in 4-H and FHA leadership. He also served as chairman of the LeMars Community School District re-organization committee.
Survivors are his wife, Marie, rural LeMars; twin daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Torbert of Akron and Mrs. Richard (Mary) Loughran of Iowa City; a son, Jay B. Stephens of Washington DC; four grandchildren, Jason and Alicia Laughran and Stephanie and Erci Torbert. He was preceded in death by his parents.
~Source: The LeMars Daily Sentinel, unknown date of publication
Plymouth Obituaries maintained by Linda Ziemann.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen