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Leona Willard "Lee" McGuire Stephenson

4 Sep 1910 – 15 May 1989

Birth	4 Sep 1910
Death	15 May 1989
Cemetery	Mount Hope Cemetery Wells , Cherokee County , Texas , USA
Added by	Meredith May on 19 Mar 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63428853

Bio

Leona Willard McGuire Stephenson was born in Oklahoma to Willard Scott and Oma Mae Stafford McGuire. Her siblings were Myrtle, Johnnie, Opal, and Henry. Between 1920 and 1930, her family moved to Cherokee County, Texas where she met and married James Bentily (J.B.) Stephenson, a Pentecostal preacher and lumber grader. They lived in Wells, where their only child, a daughter, Dorothy Leona Stephenson, was born in 1932. J.B. and Leona moved to Pineland, TX in the 1950s when J.B. was hired by Southern Pine Lumber Company. Leona also began working there. The couple retired in the 1970s and moved to Huntington, TX, to live near their daughter and her family. Lee, as she preferred to be called, was a vivacious woman with a wicked sense of humor. She was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Leona passed away in 1989 from complications associated with Alzheimer's.

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Family

Parents

• Willard McGuire 1884–1955 FaG
• Oma May Stafford McGuire 1888–1958 FaG

Spouse

• James Bentley Stephenson 1910–1992

Siblings

• B. Myrtle McGuire Miller 1905–1987 FaG
• Henry McGuire 1912–1972 FaG
• John D McGuire 1914–1997 FaG

Children

• Dorothy Leona Stephenson Price 1932–2018

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