ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: STEPHENSON, LOIS JEAN CARPENTER 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: The St. Tammany News, St. Tammany, La.

Published on Friday, December 23, 2011 12:12 

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STEPHENSON

Lois Jean Carpenter Stephenson, a retired St. Tammany Parish teacher and 
counselor died Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, at her residence in Slidell.

She was 82 years old. Mrs Stephenson was born in Scott City, Kan., and 
graduated high school in Vona, Colo. She has lived in Slidell since 1964 and 
was a member of the First United Methodist Church and a number of professional 
groups. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from southeastern University 
and also attended UNO and USM.

She is survived by two sons, Gerald Lane and Jeffrey Lee Stephenson; daughter-
in-law, Darlene and her family, Stewart, David Tiffany, Stuie, Cooper and Logan 
and three sisters, Georgia Friski, Maxine Loopstra and Doris Beardsley. She is 
also survived by five grandchildren, Katie Lynn Peluso, Keri Walker, Noel 
Stephenson, Reuben Stephenson and Brittany Stephenson and four great-
grandchildren, Isabella, Caden, Logan and Charlotte.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Cleve and Elsie Carpenter; two 
brothers; two sisters; her husband, Gerald D. and a son Lynn.

Memorial service will be held at 11a.m. Monday Dec. 26 at the First United 
Methodist Church, 433 Erlanger St., Slidell.

In lieu of flowers, donations are preferred to the St. Tammany Teachers 
Scholarship fund or the First United Methodist Church in Slidell. 

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