Descendants of Captain Henry WOODWARD

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963. Thelma Elaine STEVENSON

Risley Staff Plans Annual Award As Memorial to Miss Stevenson.

Photo titled Miss Thelma Stevenson

  Funeral services for Miss Thelma Stevenson, 50 of 2730 Eighth Ave., will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Rouch Funeral Home.  Burial will be in Roselawn Cemetery.

   Miss Stevenson died Sunday following a long illness.  Until taken ill last September, she had been a member of the Risley Junior High School physical education faculty since 1938.

   In a special memorial service Monday morning Risley students and faculty paid tribute to Miss Stevenson and the teachers announced plans to establish annual sportsmanship award in her honor.

  The award will go to a Risley boy and girl who came closest to the ideal of sportsmanship that Miss Stevenson stressed in her teaching.

  The Students voted to send a spray of flowers to Miss Stevenson's funeral and make a memorial donation to the cancer fund.

  Principle C. T. Johnson opened the tribute with a discussion of Miss Stevenson's contributions as a teacher.  Former Thatcher school Principle Max Morton recalled her as a little girl in his neighborhood, and noted that she began her Pueblo teaching career at thatcher while he served there.

  Miss Catherine Proudfoot, who attended high school with Miss Stevenson repeated the last devotional the teacher gave before her illness.  Its topic was "Sportsmanship."

  Sharon Leftwich, a ninth grader spoke for the Risley students and Mrs. Juana Hipkins, speech teacher, offered a tribute in verse.  A period of meditation preceded the sounding of taps.

  Miss Stevenson was born in Lone Star, Kan.  She moved to Devine with her parents in 1911 and to Pueblo in 1912.  Miss Stevenson attended Somerlid School and Centennial High School.  She was graduated in 1928 from Kansas University at Lawrence and became physical education instructor at Thatcher School the same year.

  She served at Thatcher for 10 years and then assumed the post at Risley

  She is survived by two brothers, Walter and John of Bakersfield and Long Beach, Calif., respectively, and four sisters, Mrs. Vera Ulrich, Bakersfield, Calif., Mrs Lila Childs, Holton, Kan.; Mrs Mabel Nieder, Lawrence, Kan., and Mrs Fay Meade, Anaheim, Calif.

  Miss Stevenson was a member of the Episcopal Church.  She also at one time supervised the Apache Camp for Girls at Beulah in cooperation with Miss Ethel Wentworth, girls' physical education instructor at Centennial.