Submitted by Wendall Stephens.

The following appeared in the Rome News Tribune Thursday, September 2, 1976

Miss Pearl Stevens, 87, 505 North Fifth Ave., died at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday in a Rome convalescent home.

Miss Stevens was born in Floyd County on Aug. 30, 1889, daughter of the late Robert G. and Martha Helms Stevens. She had spent her entire life in Floyd County and was a member of the First Baptist Church, Prior to her retirement in 1960, she was associated with Fahy Store ofr 42 years. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. J. L. Gossett, Columbus; two brothers, Luther and Dewey Stevens, both of Rome; 10 nieces and six nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in the chapel of Talley Brothers Funeral Home with Dr. Floyd Roebuck officiating. Interment will follow in Myrtle Hill Cemetery.

The following nephews will serve as active pallbearers; Leon Stevens, Roy Willbanks, Dewey Stevens, Jr., Marvin and Herbert Davis and John Selman.