Lura Stevens

ADVANCE, Mo. -- The funeral for Lura Dell Stevens of Advance will be held at 1 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Home. The Rev. Wayne Page will officiate. Burial will be in Morgan Memorial Park.

Friends may call at the funeral home from noon until time of service.

Stevens, 77, died Thursday, Aug. 15, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 26, 1925, in Mississippi, daughter of Tony and Ola Keeton Bradshaw. She first married M.M. Hudson, who died in 1978. She later married George Stevens, who died Jan. 25, 2001.

Stevens worked more than 20 years at Inland Shoe Co.

Survivors include a son, Gary Hudson of Advance; a sister, Betty McCain of Advance; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.