LOUELLA STEPHENS

Louella Stephens, a former resident of McGhee, died Saturday, June 13, 1998, at the Scenic View Skilled Nursing Center in Herculaneum. She was 85.

She was born in Arab Sept. 19, 1912, daughter of Oliver and Emma Roe Charles. She married Fred G. Stephens in Greenville on Aug. 25, 1935. He died Jan. 14, 1988.

She had been a resident of the St. Louis area since 1988. She was a member of the Shady Dell Baptist Church in McGhee.

She is survived a daughter, Linda Ellenburg of St. Louis; four brothers, Troy Charles of McGhee, Leonard Charles of Peoria, Ill., Jasper Charles of Clubb, and Leo Charles of Defiance; three sisters, Gertrude Stephens of Bushton, Ill., Delores Bachli of San Francisco, Calif., and Leoda Stacy of Marmaduke, Ark.; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son and two sisters.

Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today at the Watkins & Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Edward Stephens officiating.

Burial will be at the Stephens Cemetery near McGhee.