Stevens, Susan Duncan 1962-2013

STEVENS, PARMLEY, DUNCAN, WATROUS

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 2/21/2014 at 11:45:09

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Oct. 17, 2013

SUSAN DUNCAN STEVENS

Susan Duncan Stevens, 51, of Altoona and formerly of Newton and of Grinnell, died on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 19, at Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell with the Rev. John Epperson officiating.

Friends may call at the funeral home beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday and the family will be present at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday.

Memorials may be directed to the Susan Stevens Memorial Fund and sent in care of Smith Funeral Home.

Susan was born on Aug. 2, 1962, in Grinnell to John and Bonnie Parmley Duncan. She was raised in Grinnell and attended Grinnell schools. Following the deaths of her parents she moved to Urbandale and lived with her brother, Brian. She graduated from Urbandale High School with the Class of 1980 and later attended Iowa State University. After her education she worked for General Telephone Company in Grinnell. She recently retired from Windstream Telecommunications Company as a telephone directory editor.

She married Chuck Stevens in 1996 at the Botanical Center in Des Moines and the couple lived in Newton and recently moved to Altoona.

Susan enjoyed outdoor activities such as camping and canoeing, attending auto racing events in Newton and Knoxville and spending time with her grandchildren. She was also an avid Iowa State Cyclone fan.

Survivors include her husband, Chuck Stevens of Altoona; one daughter, Stephanie Watrous of Polk City; two sons, Shane Michael Stevens of Tucson, Ariz., and Spencer Stevens of San Diego, Calif.; two grandsons; and two brothers, Brian Duncan of Elkhorn, Neb., and Cal Duncan of San Diego, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and one brother, John Neal Duncan II.