Submitted by Wendall Stephens.
25 March 1943, Rome, Georgia
William Carl Stevens, 59, superintendent of city cemeteries here, died (March 25, 1943) in a local hospital last night
after a brief illness. A native of Bartow County, Mr. Stevens moved with his family to Floyd County at an early age and he
had lived in Rome for about 32 years and was a foreman when he resigned to become an employe of the City of Rome. At the time
of his death he was superintendent of cemeteries, a position he had held for nearly 10 years.
Mr. Stevens was a member of the Masonic order and a deacon of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, where he also taught the
Men's Bible class.
Surviving him are the widow, the former DeAlva Lynch; a daughter, Mrs. Roy Willbanks, of Rockmart; two sons, Leon, of Rome
and Graham Stevens, attached to a U. S. Army medical corps unit in the Panama Canal Zone; six brothers, G. J., Dewey, Luther,
Dan and John Stevens, all of Rome and Robert Stevens, of Texas; four sisters, Mrs. John Kilgo, Miss Pearl Stevens, Mrs. Edgar
Davis, all of Rome and Mrs. J. L. Gossett, of Columbus, GAl, and one grandchild, Carol Willbanks, of Rockmart.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o'Clock at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, with interment in Myrtle
Hill Cemetery. Complete arrangements will be announced later by Emmett Cole Funeral Home.