Submitted by: Dan Rich

Carrie Stephens

March 8, 1931 - Jan. 21, 1998

South Bend Tribune 1/23/1998

Carrie Stephens, 66, of Clover Road, Mishawaka, Ind., made her passage from this life to a better one after an illness at 4:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21. She was born in Decoy, Ky., on March 8, 1931, and had lived most of her life in northern Indiana, as well as many recent summers spent in Traverse City, Mich. She worked as a beautician for 15 years in Mishawaka, operating her own salon from 1966 until retiring in 1989. Carrie was a member of the First Church of God/Michiana Community Church of God, Mishawaka. She was a devoted elder member of the organization for many years.

As Carrie Howard, she married Leroy Stephens in Knox, Ind., at the First Christian Church on Sept. 24, 1952. He survives. She is also survived by her son, Michael Stephens and Jake, a yellow Labrador Retriever; a brother, Bobby Howard, Jr., of North Judson, Ind.; her sisters, Hazel Dobson of Vest, Ky., Nokie Russell of Denham, Ind., Virgie Mullins of Savannah, Tenn., Geneva Licker of North Judson, Helen Jencezlik of Knox, Katherine Morse of Mishawaka, Margaret Ann Strange of Waterloo, Ala., Utella Richie of Winamac, Ind., Sarah Jane Mann of Denham, Matilda Fullerton of DuPont, Wash., and Linda Russell, also of Denham; and by many nieces and nephews, and great-nieces and great-nephews all over the United States.

Services will be at 11 a.m. today in the Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 N. Main Street, Mishawaka, where friends called from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Officiating will be Pastor Odene Wampler. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Ind. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of St. Joseph County.