Services for Mrs. Cytha B. Stephens, 77, of 3410 Apple
Blossom Lane, who died Sunday evening at a Boise hospital after a long
illness, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at Alden-Waggoner Chapel
by the Rev. John Dawson of the First Methodist Church. Interment will
follow in Inglewood, Calif.
Mrs. Stephens was born Sept. 19, 1892, in Gamma, Mo. She
lived the early years of her life in Missouri and Kansas before coming to
Idaho in 1918. The family lived at Hansen, Filer and Twin Falls and then
moved to Boise in 1940. She worked for the Mode Department Store in Boise
for several years, then moved with her husband, Harry Clyde Stephens, to
whom she was married in September 1912, in Missouri, to Inglewood in 1950
where she worked Hughes Aircraft Co., until her retirement. Her husband
died in January, 1967. She returned to Boise in August, 1969, to be near
her son.
She was a member of the Methodist Church and the Rebekah
Lodge at Twin Falls and was past noble grand of the Filer Rebekah Lodge.
She also was a member of the More the Merrier senior citizens club in
Inglewood.
Survivors include two sons, Bill B. Stephens, Boise and
Jack E. Stephens, Concord, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Paul (Lucille) McComb,
Ponca City, Okla..; two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Porter, Waureka, Okla., and
Mrs. Ethel Denning, Rupert
(Idaho);
nine grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. A son and a daughter preceded her in death.
Note: Correct marriage date
and location were September 19, 1911 in Grove (Gove) City, Kansas
The
Apple Blossom Lane address is the home of her son, Billy Barr
Stephens
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