FAYE BELLE STEVENS

Faye Belle Stevens born June 21, 1918 in Tecumseh, Missouri, the 7th of eight children to Abe and Myrtle (Summers) Blackburn. She attended school at Sandridge and graduated from Gainesville High School in 1937. She and Frank "Skeeter" Stevens were married on July 20, 1941 at West Plains, Missouri. They moved to Texas where Skeeter worked the oil fields until he entered the Army Air Corp in Victoria, Texas during WW II serving as a gunner on B-24 bombers. They Lived and worked in Texas, Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, and Virginia, until moving to Gainesville in 1946 and opening Skeeter's Café, operating it and a cattle farm for another 46 years until retirement. Faye was a member of the church, worshiping with the Gainesville church of Christ. She is survived by one sister, Grace Bale of St. Louis, Missouri; husband Skeeter, son David and wife Barbara, grandson Ryan, all of Gainesville, and grandson Paul who is serving with the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq, and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services will be Monday, July 30, 2007 at 10:00 am, at the Gainesville Church of Christ with Halbert Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Sims Cemetery. Pallbearers are Ryan Stevens, Paul Stevens, Don Bale, Bob Blackburn, Jim Blackburn, Richard Blackburn, and Jan King. The Honorary Pallbearers are Jim Albin, Jack Blackburn, John King, Keith Peterson, Ralph Peterson, Steve Peterson, Charles Stevens, Kelly Stevens, and Hal Trouard.
Memorials may be made to Fair Haven Children Home, Sims Cemetery, or Community Hospice all of which can be dropped off at the Funeral Home.
Clinkingbeard Funeral Home of Gainesville in charge of arrangements.