Margaret Evelyn "Peggy" Stevens

1922 - 2016

Mrs. Margaret Evelyn "Peggy" Stevens, 93, of Bartlesville, died at 5:45 A.M. on Friday, January 29, 2016.
Funeral services for Mrs. Stevens will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at the Bartlesville First Church (4715 S.E. Price Road) with Dr. Kevin Tully officiating. Interment will be in the Dewey Cemetery directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.
Friends who wish may call for visitation at the Stumpff Funeral Home until 8 P.M. on Tuesday.
A memorial fund has been established and those who wish may send their contribution to the Bartlesville High School Journalism Department, ATTN: Darla Tresner, 1700 Hillcrest Drive, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74003.
Mrs. Stevens was born on July 28, 1922 at Browning Township, Linn County, Iowa to John P. and Edna (Willits) Williams. She attended high school at Friends Boarding School in Barnesville, Ohio and was baptized at the St. Paul's Methodist Church. She was married to Wayne W. Stevens on October 15, 1950 at Whittier, Iowa. They later made their home in Memphis, Tennessee for ten years until moving to Bartlesville where they continued to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens loved to travel and had been to Europe and on a driving trip to Alaska. Mr. Stevens preceded her in death on March 23, 2009 and she has continued her home in Bartlesville.
Active as a writer for many years, her interest in writing began in the fifth grade when her poetry entry won first place. Since that time she has been an active writer of poetry, newspaper columns, children's radio scripts, children's stories, plays, religious song lyrics and greeting cards. Her penchant for pen pals began in high school when she began writing to a girl in Belgium. Forty-five years later, while on a tour with her husband, she met her friend in Brussells. She has been a member of the Children's Radio Theatre Script Writers, the Iowa Poetry Association, the Nebraska Arts Poetica, and Idaho's Gem State Author's Guild. While in Bartlesville she was active in the local Wordweavers Writers Group, the Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. (OWFI) and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Locally she was known for her column "That's Life" published in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise for a number of years in the 1980's and 1990's.
Mrs. Stevens is survived by her son, James Stevens and wife Sheree of Bartlesville, one daughter, Diane Niesen and husband Carl of Nesbit, Mississippi, three grandsons, Kurt Connelly and wife Elisa of Broken Arrow, Cole Stevens of El Reno, Okla., and Chance Stevens of Bartlesville, a granddaughter, Lindsey (Niesen) Swain and husband Nathan of Alexander, Arkansas, her great grandchildren, Emma and Ian Connelly and Claire and Olivia Swain, her brother, Bob Williams and his wife Maxine and sister-in-laws, Donna Williams, Merrilou Williams and Wanda Stevens. She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Howard Williams and Arthur Williams, sister, Virginia Lemmerman and her husband Robert, granddaughter, Kelly Connelly and daughter, Debbie Connelly.
Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.stumpff.org.