1919
Edna
2012
Edna Beth Jones Stephens
July 18, 1919 — July 25, 2012
Mrs. Edna Beth Jones Stephens, 93 of Lake City passed away on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville. She was born in Columbia County and was the youngest of 3 children to the late Pasco and Mamie Tolbert Jones. Mrs. Stephens was a graduate of Green Cove Springs High School class of 1937 and also the Jones Business College in Sarasota in 1938. She met her late husband of 59 years of marriage, E.W. “Pat” Stephens, while she was working at Camp Blanding in Keystone Heights and together they farmed in Hardee County, Florida for over 40 years, until retiring and moving to Lake City in 1981. Mrs. Stephens attended both the Bethel United Methodist Church and the Tustenuggee United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her brother, Trammell Jones in 1975 and her sister, Elise Fleckenstein in 1999.
Survivors include her son and daughter in law, Larry W. and Hilda Stephens, Tampa; her daughter and son in law, Carolyn J. and Gene Conerly, Sebring; six grandchildren; sixteen great grandchildren; and her previous special caregivers and most recently, Gail Burress, Lake City.
Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, July 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM, at the New Zion Baptist Church in Ona, Florida with Rev. Stephen Darley, pastor, and Rev. Robert Roberts officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation with the family will be Sunday afternoon from 2-4:00 PM at the funeral home and also on Monday from 1-2:00 PM, one hour prior to the service at the church. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Humane Society of your choice. Arrangements are under the direction of GUERRY Funeral Home, Lake City. Please sign the guestbook at www.guerryfuneralhome.net
Survivors include her son and daughter in law, Larry W. and Hilda Stephens, Tampa; her daughter and son in law, Carolyn J. and Gene Conerly, Sebring; six grandchildren; sixteen great grandchildren; and her previous special caregivers and most recently, Gail Burress, Lake City.
Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, July 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM, at the New Zion Baptist Church in Ona, Florida with Rev. Stephen Darley, pastor, and Rev. Robert Roberts officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation with the family will be Sunday afternoon from 2-4:00 PM at the funeral home and also on Monday from 1-2:00 PM, one hour prior to the service at the church. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Humane Society of your choice. Arrangements are under the direction of GUERRY Funeral Home, Lake City. Please sign the guestbook at www.guerryfuneralhome.net
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