The Astoria Community was saddened Tuesday night when word spread of the death of Mrs. Mary Ann Stevens, Assistant General Manager of Stevens Publishing Company, who died about 9:15 p.m., April 26, 1977, in Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, where she had been hospitalized since Sunday. She was 44 years old.
Mrs. Stevens was born in Hannibal, Mo. on Nov. 6, 1932, a daughter of John P. and Alma Murphy.
She was a graduate of McCooey High School in Hannibal, Mo., and St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Quincy. She worked as a Registered Nurse from the time of her graduation until moving to Astoria in 1959 when she became actively engaged in business with her husband. Her death was caused by a rare, progressive liver disease, thought to have been caused or aggravated when she contracted infectious hepatitis in 1958 while working in a hospital.
Mrs. Stevens is survived by her husband, Argus Publisher Ken Stevens, whom she married on Dec. 8, 1956, and four children, Tom, 15, Stephanie, 13, Karen, 12, and Tim, 10.
She is also survived by 11 brothers, Neil, Edwin, Gene, Mike, Jim, Al, Paul, Donald, Charles, Jerry and Tim Murphy, and one sister, Mrs. Betty Rigby. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Jack and Bob Murphy. Nearly 100 nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Shawgo Memorial Home in Astoria.
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