George Elmer Stevens Jr.

George E. Stevens, Jr; of Trappe, passed from this life at the Talbot Hospice House, Easton to meet his savior, Jesus Christ on Friday, September 8, 2006. He was 75. Born on January 16, 1931 in Cordova he was the son of the late George E. Sr, and Mary Elise Thume Stevens. At an early age he moved with his family to Trappe where he has spent his entire life. After graduating from public school, he entered the U.S. Army in November 1952 where he achieved the rank of Tec. Sergeant while serving with the 64th tank Battalion during the Korean conflict, receiving the Korean Service medal and 2 bronze Service stars. Following his release from active duty in 1954 he returned to Trappe, where he worked at various jobs that included farming, a carpenter, and school bus driver before beginning a career as a rural letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. During this time he served as President of the Trappe School P.T.A. in the 1960’s, and with the help of Donald Brown the then President of the White marsh P.T.A. smoothly made the transition as the two schools where integrated. Mr. Stevens was very active in little league baseball, little league softball and scouting. He loved all children; especially his three grand-daughters’s whom he raised for 10 years. He was past president of the Trappe Lions club where he received the Melvin Jones Fellow award, Past President and life member of the Trappe Vol. Fire Dept; past President of the National Rural letter carriers Association, Dorchester post 91 American Legion, Cambridge, life member of Post 7460 V.F.W. Cambridge; the Maryland Farm Bureau, and the Cambridge Church of the Nazarene. In addition to his wife Janice whom he married on October 24, 1969; Mr. Stevens is survived by a daughter; Brenda S. Leaf and her husband Carville of Denton, a step- son Jay K. Faulkner and his wife Becky of Trappe; one sister Mary K. Cox of Cincinnati, Ohio; seven grandchildren, Phillina and Sarah Diefenderfer, Susan Allmond and her husband Chris, Jessica Leaf, Jason Baynard and his wife Casey and Karen and Lauren Baynard. Also three great-grandchildren Evelyn K.Allmond, Colin S. Baynard and Christopher J. Baynard. Funeral services will be held at the Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P. A. Easton; on Thursday September 14, 2006 at 10:00AM with the Rev. Richard Prahl and Rev. William George officiating, music will be provide by Curtis Thume and Ray Chaplain. Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday evening from 6 to 8PM. Burial will be in the Landing Neck Cemetery with members of the Trappe Vol. Fire Dept serving as Pallbearers. Donations may be made to Talbot Hospice Foundation 586 Cynwood Drive, Easton, MD. 21601 or to the Cambridge Church of the Nazarene c/o Donna Reed 3 Oriole Drive, Cambridge, MD. 21613.