Obituaries: Rebecca Angieline Fletcher Stevens, 1951, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************


 




From: August 31, 1951 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Stevens, 86, Prominent Citizen of Winn Succumbs

Last rites were held Tuesday at the Couley Methodist Church for Mrs. Angieline
Fletcher Stevens, 86 years and 10 months of age, of the Couley Community in
Ward Five, who died August 27, following a month's illness.  Services were
conducted by the pastor, the Rev. N. Baum, assisted by a former pastor, Sister
Lula Wardlow, and the Rev. Henry Isgitt and the Rev. C. C. Lee, friends of the
Stevens family.

Pallbearers were Andrew Jones, Perry Killingsworth, Willard Smith, Jesse
Logan, J. E. Rikard, and Gary Fletcher, and interment was in the cemetery at
the Couley Methodist Church on Highway 84 under direction of Edmonds Funeral
Home.

Born October 27, 1864 at Verda, Mrs. Stevens affiliated with the Iatt Baptist
Church in Grant Parish at the age of 13.  With her family she moved to Winn
Parish more than a century ago, and she was married to Alfred Stevens in 1883.
Mr. Stevens, who also died at the age of 86, preceded his wife in death on
October 5, 1944.

Six children were born to this union and all are living today, including Jesse
J. Stevens of Atlanta, Mrs. C. O. Nugent of Alexandria, Willie Stevens of
Atlanta, Crawford H. Stevens of Colfax, Mrs. W. F. Owens of Baton Rouge, and
J. Cheston Stevens, president of the Winn Parish School Board.  She is
survived also by one grandson, Louis Earle Stevens of Colfax.

Mrs. Stevens always was prominently identified with church and civic endeavors
in her community, and was beloved to all who knew her as a kindly citizen and
mother, a fact attested to by the tribute paid from near and far in beautiful
flowers, telegrams, and expressions of sympathy tendered her bereaved family.