Los Angeles-Sacramento-San Bernardino County CA Archives Obituaries.....Stevens-Tate, Thelma Jean June 10, 2005
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THELMA JEAN STEVENS-TATE
07/11/1949 - 06/10/2005

Thelma Jean Alexander was born on July 11, 1949, in Tucson, Arizona.  She was 
the second daughter of three girls born to Mitchell Alexander, Jr. of Midland, 
TX, and Dorothy L. Turpin of TX.  The family moved from Arizona to Los 
Angeles, CA in 1950.

"Jean" attended Carver High School then Compton College in Los Angeles, CA.  
After school, Jean married Robert Bradley and from that union her only 
daughter, Stacey Bradley was born.  After several years Jean and Robert were 
divorced and she met and married Keith Stevens in Los Angeles, CA and helped 
raise four step children before their marriage ended in 1989.  

Jean accepted the lord in January 1976 and was an active member of the Great 
White Throne of Judgment Ministry of Los Angeles, CA from 1981 thru 1987, but 
stayed in touch and visited until 2005.  In 2002, she became a member of the 
Morning Star Church of the Saints of Perris, CA under the leadership of Pastor 
C. R. Gaines, and was an active member of the choir.  Jean worked in various 
positions aboard Amtrak Railroad Company based in Los Angeles, CA for fourteen 
years.   She was an active member of RED BLOCK, a program that helped alcohol 
and drug addicted Amtrak employees, and she volunteered for their safety 
committee.  Jean was an entrepreneur and started her own business named Living 
Large Fashions with a friend Jeanne Simmons.  She was the coordinator and 
founder of the cancer support group called Supporters Are Us and began a Boot 
Ministry to encourage other cancer patients.

Jean was a cancer patient at the Oklahoma Cancer Treatment Center in 2003 and 
moved to Terlton, OK in 2004.  She attended church in Oklahoma City and met 
and married her current husband, Corporal Tate on May 8, 2004, in Beggs, OK.

God called her home on June 10, 2005 at 5:50am, in Terlton, OK.  Jean will be 
greatly missed but never forgotten.  Her father Mitchell Alexander was called 
home on July 1, 2005, and her brother Leroy "Butch" Daniel preceded her on 
June 8, 2004.  Left to cherish her memories is her mother, Dorothy Alexander, 
her daughter Stacey Bradley of Terlton, OK, her sisters, Rita, Brenda, & 
Tristan Alexander, Michelle Crowell, Alexis Gramling, Sandra Wilson, & Shirley 
Robinson, one brother Mitchell Alexander III, Aunt Jean Minger, Grandchildren 
Mark Anthony Mitchell & Jonathan Bradley, all of California and a host of 
other loving relatives and friends.



Additional Comments:
Jean was cremated at the Cremation Society of Oklahoma, 2103 E. Third St., 
Tulsa, Ok 74104.  Her Memorial Service was conducted by Pastor C.R. Gaines and 
held on August 31, 2005 at Greater Morning Star Church of the Saints in 
Perris, CA 92570.

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