Brief Life History of Joseph Golden
Funeral services, with military honors, for Lovell resident Joseph Golden Stevens, 87, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lovell Stake Center, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will follow in Lovell Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Haskell Funeral Home in Lovell and one hour prior to services. He died Feb. 9, 2002, at New Horizons Care Center in Lovell. He was born Aug. 21, 1914, in Cowley, the son of William Robert Stevens and Alice Constance Banks; and attended Cowley High School. He played basketball and football at CHS and baseball on the Cowley town team. In his youth, he spent many summers in the Big Horn Mountains herding sheep and cattle for his father. He fulfilled a three-year mission for the LDS Church in Tahiti, from 1937 to 1940. During part of his mission, he coached the church basketball team, which won the all-South Pacific championship. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist mate, stationed in Hawaii. On Aug 21, 1946, he married Jala McLemore in the Salt Lake Utah Temple. For 15 years, he operated the Cowley service station. Later, he worked construction and for Lovell School District No.2 and enjoyed driving the school activities bus. After his retirement from the school district, he continued to drive a bus for the North Big Horn Senior Citizens until age 70. He enjoyed travelling throughout the United States and Mexico with his family. Interests included sports, seeing and being with his grandchildren, and fishing. He held several LDS church callings and was known for his sense of humor. Survivors include his wife of 55 years; two sons and their wives, Richard Stevens of Granville, Ohio and J. Thad Stevens of Fort Bridger; two daughters, Lynda Wills and her husband of Great Falls, Mont., and Kathy Brown of Lovell; 15 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, William, Chester and Elmer; and a sister, Verda Stevens Croft. Memorials may be made to the Lovell library. Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, Wyoming) 15 February 2002
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- Jay G Stevens, "United States 1950 Census"
- Joseph Golden Stevens, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
- Joseph G Stevens, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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Name Meaning
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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