Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  MARY KATE STEPHENS

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The following excerpts were taken from Page 10A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - February 9, 2000
STEPHENS
Private family services will be held at a later date for Mary Kate
Stephens, 93, of Carlsbad.  She died February 7 at her home.  
Cremation has taken place.  Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.  She was born April 10, 1906, in 
Sulphur, Okla., to Robert and Sophia Hodges Lowrance.  She married
J.T. Stephens Sr. in Sulphur in the early 1920's.  In 1929, they
moved to Carlsbad where they homesteaded south of town where the
Flying X is located.  She was a member of First Baptist Church.
In 1959, she moved to Roswell, NM.  She was preceded in death by
her husband on July 11, 1981; a son, Luther Stephens in 1998;
two brothers; and two sisters.  Survivors include sons, J.T. 
Stephens Jr. of Carlsbad and Stephen C. Stephens of Albuquerque, NM;
daughters, Dorothy Virden of Gardnerville, Nev., Mary L. Scholle
of LaPlace, La., Kathryn Rumbaugh and Pat Bush of Roswell; sister,
Virginia Tyler of Montrose, Colo.; 14 grandchildren; 19 great-
grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.  (Photo shown
of Stephens)