Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Stevens, Robert Short December 6, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jean Frost http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006103 September 6, 2011, 2:38 pm Tante Funeral Home December 2007 Buena Vista, GA- Robert Short Stevens, 85, died Thursday, December 6, 2007, in Buena Vista. Funeral Services were held Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. at the Buena Vista United Methodist Church with Reverend Jimmy Ford officiating. Interment followed in the Buena Vista Cemetery. Serving as active pallbearers were Walter Weyman Brooks, Walter Weyman Brooks, Jr., Bradley Steven Brooks, Joe Slade Johnson, Jr., Joe Slade Johnson III, Steven Murrah Johnson, Robert Charles Stevens, Ernest Chappell Stevens, and McLowery Elrod. Honorary pallbearers will be the men of Buena Vista United Methodist Church. The family received friends at Tante Funeral Home Saturday, December 8, 2007 from 2 to 4 p.m. Mr. Stevens was born May 5, 1922, the only child of Robert Putnam and Esther Short Stevens. He was a lifelong resident of Marion County and was a farmer by trade. He was Methodist by faith and was a devoted member of Buena Vista United Methodist Church. He served in the Army during World War II. His parents preceded him in death. Survivors include five cousins and their families, Josephine Elrod & Weyman Brooks of Columbus, Georgia, McLowery & Susan Elrod of Americus, Georgia, Alice Murrah & Joe S. Johnson of Talbotton, Georgia, Ernest Chappell Stevens of Americus, Georgia, and Robert Charles & Nancy Stevens of LaGrange, Georgia. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Buena Vista UMC, P.O. Box 449, Buena Vista, Georgia, 31803 or to the Buena Vista Cemetery, c/o Herbert Tante, 137 Harold Harris Road, Buena Vista, Georgia, 31803. Tante Funeral Home of Buena Vista, Georgia was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/marion/obits/s/stevens13500ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb