Denton Journal October 26, 1956, page 1:
" MRS. J. KEMP STEVENS SUCCUMBS AT AGE 74
A well known and prominent figure among her fellow citizens in Caroline county for more than a generation, Mrs. Ethel Stevens succumbed to a long illness last Saturday morning, October 20, in teh seventy-fourth year of her age.
A daughter of the late Isaac D. and Harriet E. Clough Anderson, Mrs. Stevens was born in Queen Anne's County on the 8th of February, 1883. In her early childhood she moved with her parents to Caroline and became a permanent resident of the county. She was married on the 22nd of January, 1912 to J. Kemp Stevens, an attorney of Denton who was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Caroline County at the time of her marriage. They had one child, a son who died at birth. Mr. Stevens died March 18, 1922.
With a special flair for music, Mrs. Stevens began a musical career in earnest after her graduation at Denton High School. She entered Peabody conservatory of Music in Baltimore and later studied at New York University in preparation for positions she filled in early womanhood. As instructor, she was supervisor of music in the public schools of Caroline County, director of music at State Teachers College, Salisbury, and taught public school music in summer schools at John Hopkins and at the University of Maryland. For a number of years she was organist and choir director at Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, of which she was a communicant. In a musical capacity she filled a number of public positions and was honored by appointment as chairman of several State and county groups.
Affiliated actively with the Democratic party, Mrs. Stevens was the first woman in the county to be a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Caroline county. Her late adult years were largely devoted to business. For a score of years or more she was a successful representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
But, despite the demands of her workaday world, Mrs. Stevens did not miss opportunities for a measure of the amentities of life, found largely within her charming little home and among her countless friends. Truly, at the last, Mary Ethel Stevens could say with the poet: "I warmed both hands beside the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
Survivors include one brother, Stephen Russell Anderson, of Wilmington, Del., and one half-brother, Lee Anderson, of North Hollywood, Calif.; also, a niece, Mrs. Judson Morgan, of Wilmington, Del.
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, and interment was made in the Denton Cemetery, the rector of the church, the Rev. Joseph E. James, officiating.
Active pall-bearers were L.J. Redden, C.V. West, C.P. Merrick, A.W. Brumbaugh, W.S. Fitzgerald, W.A. Cawley. The honorary bearers were J.R. Chaffinch, Dr. D.O. George, W.F. Davis, Judge J.D. Carter; also L.H. Talley and O.D. Collins, of Wilmington, Del."
" MRS. J. KEMP STEVENS SUCCUMBS AT AGE 74
A well known and prominent figure among her fellow citizens in Caroline county for more than a generation, Mrs. Ethel Stevens succumbed to a long illness last Saturday morning, October 20, in teh seventy-fourth year of her age.
A daughter of the late Isaac D. and Harriet E. Clough Anderson, Mrs. Stevens was born in Queen Anne's County on the 8th of February, 1883. In her early childhood she moved with her parents to Caroline and became a permanent resident of the county. She was married on the 22nd of January, 1912 to J. Kemp Stevens, an attorney of Denton who was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Caroline County at the time of her marriage. They had one child, a son who died at birth. Mr. Stevens died March 18, 1922.
With a special flair for music, Mrs. Stevens began a musical career in earnest after her graduation at Denton High School. She entered Peabody conservatory of Music in Baltimore and later studied at New York University in preparation for positions she filled in early womanhood. As instructor, she was supervisor of music in the public schools of Caroline County, director of music at State Teachers College, Salisbury, and taught public school music in summer schools at John Hopkins and at the University of Maryland. For a number of years she was organist and choir director at Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, of which she was a communicant. In a musical capacity she filled a number of public positions and was honored by appointment as chairman of several State and county groups.
Affiliated actively with the Democratic party, Mrs. Stevens was the first woman in the county to be a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Caroline county. Her late adult years were largely devoted to business. For a score of years or more she was a successful representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
But, despite the demands of her workaday world, Mrs. Stevens did not miss opportunities for a measure of the amentities of life, found largely within her charming little home and among her countless friends. Truly, at the last, Mary Ethel Stevens could say with the poet: "I warmed both hands beside the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
Survivors include one brother, Stephen Russell Anderson, of Wilmington, Del., and one half-brother, Lee Anderson, of North Hollywood, Calif.; also, a niece, Mrs. Judson Morgan, of Wilmington, Del.
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, and interment was made in the Denton Cemetery, the rector of the church, the Rev. Joseph E. James, officiating.
Active pall-bearers were L.J. Redden, C.V. West, C.P. Merrick, A.W. Brumbaugh, W.S. Fitzgerald, W.A. Cawley. The honorary bearers were J.R. Chaffinch, Dr. D.O. George, W.F. Davis, Judge J.D. Carter; also L.H. Talley and O.D. Collins, of Wilmington, Del."
Denton Journal October 26, 1956, page 1:
" MRS. J. KEMP STEVENS SUCCUMBS AT AGE 74
A well known and prominent figure among her fellow citizens in Caroline county for more than a generation, Mrs. Ethel Stevens succumbed to a long illness last Saturday morning, October 20, in teh seventy-fourth year of her age.
A daughter of the late Isaac D. and Harriet E. Clough Anderson, Mrs. Stevens was born in Queen Anne's County on the 8th of February, 1883. In her early childhood she moved with her parents to Caroline and became a permanent resident of the county. She was married on the 22nd of January, 1912 to J. Kemp Stevens, an attorney of Denton who was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Caroline County at the time of her marriage. They had one child, a son who died at birth. Mr. Stevens died March 18, 1922.
With a special flair for music, Mrs. Stevens began a musical career in earnest after her graduation at Denton High School. She entered Peabody conservatory of Music in Baltimore and later studied at New York University in preparation for positions she filled in early womanhood. As instructor, she was supervisor of music in the public schools of Caroline County, director of music at State Teachers College, Salisbury, and taught public school music in summer schools at John Hopkins and at the University of Maryland. For a number of years she was organist and choir director at Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, of which she was a communicant. In a musical capacity she filled a number of public positions and was honored by appointment as chairman of several State and county groups.
Affiliated actively with the Democratic party, Mrs. Stevens was the first woman in the county to be a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Caroline county. Her late adult years were largely devoted to business. For a score of years or more she was a successful representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
But, despite the demands of her workaday world, Mrs. Stevens did not miss opportunities for a measure of the amentities of life, found largely within her charming little home and among her countless friends. Truly, at the last, Mary Ethel Stevens could say with the poet: "I warmed both hands beside the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
Survivors include one brother, Stephen Russell Anderson, of Wilmington, Del., and one half-brother, Lee Anderson, of North Hollywood, Calif.; also, a niece, Mrs. Judson Morgan, of Wilmington, Del.
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, and interment was made in the Denton Cemetery, the rector of the church, the Rev. Joseph E. James, officiating.
Active pall-bearers were L.J. Redden, C.V. West, C.P. Merrick, A.W. Brumbaugh, W.S. Fitzgerald, W.A. Cawley. The honorary bearers were J.R. Chaffinch, Dr. D.O. George, W.F. Davis, Judge J.D. Carter; also L.H. Talley and O.D. Collins, of Wilmington, Del."
" MRS. J. KEMP STEVENS SUCCUMBS AT AGE 74
A well known and prominent figure among her fellow citizens in Caroline county for more than a generation, Mrs. Ethel Stevens succumbed to a long illness last Saturday morning, October 20, in teh seventy-fourth year of her age.
A daughter of the late Isaac D. and Harriet E. Clough Anderson, Mrs. Stevens was born in Queen Anne's County on the 8th of February, 1883. In her early childhood she moved with her parents to Caroline and became a permanent resident of the county. She was married on the 22nd of January, 1912 to J. Kemp Stevens, an attorney of Denton who was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Caroline County at the time of her marriage. They had one child, a son who died at birth. Mr. Stevens died March 18, 1922.
With a special flair for music, Mrs. Stevens began a musical career in earnest after her graduation at Denton High School. She entered Peabody conservatory of Music in Baltimore and later studied at New York University in preparation for positions she filled in early womanhood. As instructor, she was supervisor of music in the public schools of Caroline County, director of music at State Teachers College, Salisbury, and taught public school music in summer schools at John Hopkins and at the University of Maryland. For a number of years she was organist and choir director at Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, of which she was a communicant. In a musical capacity she filled a number of public positions and was honored by appointment as chairman of several State and county groups.
Affiliated actively with the Democratic party, Mrs. Stevens was the first woman in the county to be a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Caroline county. Her late adult years were largely devoted to business. For a score of years or more she was a successful representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
But, despite the demands of her workaday world, Mrs. Stevens did not miss opportunities for a measure of the amentities of life, found largely within her charming little home and among her countless friends. Truly, at the last, Mary Ethel Stevens could say with the poet: "I warmed both hands beside the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
Survivors include one brother, Stephen Russell Anderson, of Wilmington, Del., and one half-brother, Lee Anderson, of North Hollywood, Calif.; also, a niece, Mrs. Judson Morgan, of Wilmington, Del.
Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, and interment was made in the Denton Cemetery, the rector of the church, the Rev. Joseph E. James, officiating.
Active pall-bearers were L.J. Redden, C.V. West, C.P. Merrick, A.W. Brumbaugh, W.S. Fitzgerald, W.A. Cawley. The honorary bearers were J.R. Chaffinch, Dr. D.O. George, W.F. Davis, Judge J.D. Carter; also L.H. Talley and O.D. Collins, of Wilmington, Del."
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