Austin Stephany

Dear Grandpa (Papa),
As Grace says you are "all around" and "everywhere"! I have so many memories to keep you all around and everywhere, from dinners (even as a child, if we did not like the choice at home) to Saturday breakfasts and everything in between for Grace's first five months of life. You taught me many lessons about human service and human nature, only following with support, listening ears, and kind words... many great lessons for life! You touched so many and left smiles with...

Dear Lois & family, I would like to thank all of you for taking me in and treating me as one of your own.I'm going to miss Bud just as much all of you.He taught me how to grow up - be respectable - responsibility.There is so much more.All I really want to say is that I miss you Bud and I never got to thank you for the second chance in life and all the love you gave me.So much more can be said but we all know what a great MAN,SAINT,FATHER,ICON,TEACHER he was. All my love and prayers.

Sometimes in life, just by being the example for kids,the biggest impacts are made. That was the case for me when it came to Mr. Stephany. I always felt welcome and safe when he was around. Mr. Stephany will forever remain one of the most positive influences in my life. I can't really talk about him though, without acknowledging Mrs. Stephany. The loving teamwork is what I believe empowered them both. The legacy of integrity, love and generosity is being carried on a little more in this...

Dear Lois and children,
A great man was taken from this earth when Bud passed but he left us with a part of him inside us all. For me, he was my boss, my friend and a second father to me.
He was a mentor, not only a person who taught me about working on cars but one who taught me about life's lessons. He was a shinning example of what a businessman should be, and what a family man should be.
Always there with a smile, handshake or a tip of the hat.
I always hoped that my kids...