1928
Astor
2012
Astor Thompson Stevens
June 28, 1928 — January 6, 2012
Astor Thompson Stevens, 83 of Amarillo passed away on January 6, 2012.
Her funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at Church of Christ at the Colonies, 4500 Wesley Rd. with Rev. Dick Marcier and Rev. Roy Wheeler officiating. Arrangements are by LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Coulter Road, 8310 S. Coulter Road, Amarillo, TX.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Monday, January 9, 2012 at the Funeral Home.
Astor T. Stevens, 83, who had been working on her P.H.D. (her Promised Heavenly Destination) most of her life, graduated January 6, 2012. She was born on June 28, 1928 in Pikeville, KY to Trimble and Virgie Thompson and was the ninth of eleven siblings. In order to get Bible classes in high school, she chose to attend and later graduated school from Mountain Mission School in Grundy, VA. She then attended Cincinnati Bible Seminary where she met and married Everett Stevens on November 17, 1950. Together they served in various ministries in Cincinnati and Kentucky before graduation and later in Christian churches in Illinois, Texas, Kentucky, Colorado and Kansas. Together they led in the establishment of Oak Dale and Highland Churches in Amarillo and Falcon Christian Church in Colorado. Astor was the head cook at El Porvenir Christian Camp in Las Vegas, NM for three years while her husband was manager there. Astor was a devoted Christian.
She was preceded in death by her parents; 6 brothers; 3 sisters and children, Judith Barclay and James Harold Stevens.
The sruvivors include her husband, Everett Stevens of Amarillo; son, Timothy Dale Stevens of Amarillo; sisters, June Young and Betty Nichols of St. Clair Shores, MI; grandson, Jonathan Barclay and wife Dorothy and Elizabeth Silva all of Amarillo and 7 great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials be made to Mountain Mission
School, P.O. Box 649, Grundy, VA 24614.
The family wishes to express a special thank you to the staff of BSA Hospice.
Her funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at Church of Christ at the Colonies, 4500 Wesley Rd. with Rev. Dick Marcier and Rev. Roy Wheeler officiating. Arrangements are by LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Coulter Road, 8310 S. Coulter Road, Amarillo, TX.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Monday, January 9, 2012 at the Funeral Home.
Astor T. Stevens, 83, who had been working on her P.H.D. (her Promised Heavenly Destination) most of her life, graduated January 6, 2012. She was born on June 28, 1928 in Pikeville, KY to Trimble and Virgie Thompson and was the ninth of eleven siblings. In order to get Bible classes in high school, she chose to attend and later graduated school from Mountain Mission School in Grundy, VA. She then attended Cincinnati Bible Seminary where she met and married Everett Stevens on November 17, 1950. Together they served in various ministries in Cincinnati and Kentucky before graduation and later in Christian churches in Illinois, Texas, Kentucky, Colorado and Kansas. Together they led in the establishment of Oak Dale and Highland Churches in Amarillo and Falcon Christian Church in Colorado. Astor was the head cook at El Porvenir Christian Camp in Las Vegas, NM for three years while her husband was manager there. Astor was a devoted Christian.
She was preceded in death by her parents; 6 brothers; 3 sisters and children, Judith Barclay and James Harold Stevens.
The sruvivors include her husband, Everett Stevens of Amarillo; son, Timothy Dale Stevens of Amarillo; sisters, June Young and Betty Nichols of St. Clair Shores, MI; grandson, Jonathan Barclay and wife Dorothy and Elizabeth Silva all of Amarillo and 7 great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials be made to Mountain Mission
School, P.O. Box 649, Grundy, VA 24614.
The family wishes to express a special thank you to the staff of BSA Hospice.
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