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- MINNIE V. STEVENS FORMERLY OF SANDY CREEKShow Details
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - December 17, 1997Browse Issues
Minnie V. Stevens, 79, of 411 Essex Drive, Tallahassee, Fla., and 39236 Maher Drive, Zephyrhills, Fla., died Dec. 5 in her home in Zephyrhills.
Mrs. Stevens and her husband, Leland, lived in Sandy Creek for many years, moving to Tallahassee in 1966. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Sandy Creek and Calvary United Methodist Church of Tallahassee, and was very active in church work.
She was a homemaker. After moving to Tallahassee, she and her husband owned and operated several Laundromats in the Tallahassee area.
While in the Sandy Creek area, she and her husband took in foster children.
Mrs. Stevens was a former member of Order of the Eastern Star in Sandy Creek and a former member of the Home Bureau.
She enjoyed her flower garden, especially cannas. She also enjoyed walking, playing cards with friends, and spending time with children and grandchildren. After moving to Florida, she was an avid reader of the Salmon River News and the Watertown Daily Times.
Born May 2, 1918, at Hammond, a daughter of Raymond and Hazel Selts Vrooman, she attended area schools. She married Leland A. Stevens on Oct. 4, 1941, at her sister's home in Pulaski. He died in 1990.
Surviving are a son, Robert M., Tallahassee; two daughters, Edith Castor, Sandy Creek, and Nancy Jones, Pierrepont Manor; two brothers, Walter Vrooman, Mexico, and Wendal Vrooman, Pulaski; a sister, Lillian Weber, Zephyrhills; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The funeral was Dec. 10, at Abby Funeral Home, Tallahassee. Burial was in Tallahassee Memorial Gardens.
Donations may be made to the United Methodist Church in Sandy Creek or to the Calvary United Methodist Church of Tallahassee.
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1918 - 1997 (79 years)