George Washington Stephens (1875-1928)

STEPHENS, HICKMAN, BULLOCK, GRAVER, HARRIS, HUNTER, BEAR, EDGERTON, HOLMAN

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Date: 9/27/2016 at 22:29:40

From Nevada Journal June 27, 1928

OBITUARY OF GEO. STEPHENS

Native of Hickory Grove Neighborhood, Died Friday.

Special to the Journal.
The funeral service for the late George W. Stephens was held at the Methodist Church Sunday afternoon, June 24. Rev. Harold H. Stark delivered the funeral sermon. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Mr. and Mrs. Sherm Rinehart, Mr. T. M. Smith and Mrs. Lloyd Lounsberry, Mrs. S. B. Goodenow accompanied them.

The Woodmen and Royal Neighbors attended the funeral in a body. The Woodmen using their ritual service at the grave. The pallbearers were chosen from the Woodmen Lodge.

George W. Stephens, son of Zimri and Mary Jane Stephens, was born in the Hickory Grove neighborhood, Story County, Iowa, June 10, 1875 and passed away at the Deaconness hospital, Marshalltown June 22, 1928 aged 53 years and 12 days.

On June 14, 1890 he was united in marriage to Harriett Bell Hickman who survives him. Four children came to make happy this union; Mrs. Leora Bullock of Maxwell, Iowa, and Floyd, Lawrence and Virgil who are at home with their mother.

Aside from his immediate family he is survived by two brothers, Daniel of Boynton, Okla., and Grover of Mont Rose, South Dakota; and six sisters, Mrs. Clarence Graver of Salem Oregon; Mrs. Mary Harris of Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Fannie Hunter of Springfield, Ohio; Mrs. Nancy Bear of Mobile, Alabama; Mrs. Chas. Edgerton of San Pedro, Calif.; and Mrs. Royce Holman of Fort Dodge, Iowa. His father and mother and brother Robert having preceded him in death. There are also five grandchildren and other more distant relatives and many friends of a life time.

Mr. Stephens has always lived in the neighborhood of his birth. He has long been a member of the Woodman Lodge, aside from the membership in this order he had few interests outside his home. He always devoted his time to his home and often said that he got more enjoyment from it than anything else he knew.