Mary Stevens
Mary Stevens
Mary Stevens
1925-2015
Mary Stevens, age 89, of Clarinda, Iowa, formerly of Clearmont, Missouri entered into peace Friday, August 7, 2015 at Clarinda Regional Health Center, Clarinda, Iowa. Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m., Monday, August 10, 2015 at Ritchie Funeral Home, Clarinda, Iowa with Reverend Bill Briley officiating. Visitation with the family was held 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Sunday, August 9, 2015 at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to Shearer Cemetery or to the Braddyville Methodist Church. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family on our website at, www.ritchiefuneralhome.com under Obituaries. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Home of Clarinda, Iowa.
Mary Stevens, age 89, of Clarinda, Iowa, formerly of Clearmont, Missouri entered into peace Friday, August 7, 2015 at Clarinda Regional Health Center, Clarinda, Iowa.
Mary was born on September 8, 1925 on a farm east of Braddyville, Iowa to Clyde Byron and Bertha Vide Davison Moffitt. She was a 1943 graduate from Braddyville High School and received a teaching certificate from Northwest Missouri State College. She taught 1st and 2nd grade for seven years in Hamburg, Iowa and Prescott, Iowa.
While teaching in Prescott she met Gail “Johnny” Stevens and they were married at the Methodist Church in Siam, Iowa on July 20, 1952. The couple resided on a farm near Clearmont, Missouri where they raised four children, Larry (Doris) Stevens of Burlington, Jct., Missouri, Marcia (Steve) Armstrong of Coin, Iowa, Rodney (Connie) Stevens of Braddyville, Iowa, Judy (Kevin) Weishar of Manama, Bahrain.
Mary was a devoted wife and a caring, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She also was a strong Christian woman who applied her excellent nurturing and teaching skills to many years of leading Sunday school classes. She was an active member of the Braddyville United Methodist Church and the UMW.
Preceding Mary in death were her parents, her brother Ivan Moffitt and sister Frances Briley, brothers-in-law Roy Christensen, Jim Crawford and Don Briley, sister-in-law Mary Zoa Moffitt and son-in-law Jim Ingraham.
A rich woman by any meaningful measure, her husband, her children, 12 grandchildren, Brian (Shelly) Stevens, Amber (Kyle) Newsom, Nikki (Todd) Carlson, Katie (Greg) Branson, Jeff (Lori) Armstrong, Jenny (Sam) Becker, Ashley (Andy) Babbel, Tyler Stevens, Zachary (Maggie) Stevens, McKenzie Stevens, Michael Weishar, Doyle Weishar, 22 great grandchildren, sisters Verla Christensen, Shenandoah, Iowa, Effie Crawford, Osceola, Iowa, and brother, Leroy (Barb) Moffitt, Murphy, North Carolina, nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends are left to fondly cherish her memory.
