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Emma May Stevens, born Easter
Sunday, March 31, 1918, in St. Joseph's Hospital, Denver, Colorado.
Daughter of Edgar Clarence and Mary Ellen (Jackson) Stevens. She
weighed 2½ pounds at birth and was so small, her
mother could put a tea cup on her head and kept her in a shoe
box on the oven door. She had 2 older brothers, Eugene and George,
both preceding her in death.
Emma May was baptized into the Baptist Faith, at Barnum Baptist
Church, on September 12,1927, when she was nine years old. The
church later became Grace Baptist Church, where she attended until
the 1960's and transferred her membership to Harvey Park Baptist
Church.
She married Jesse G. Noland, at his parents home, in Denver, on
November 8, 1946.
She belonged to the National Association of Parliamentarians,
the American Baptist Women's Missionary Society, on a local Church
level and the Rocky Mountain Region, The Security Benefit Association,
a Fraternal Insurance Organization where she was Captain of a
Competitive Drill Team and to the George Washington Post of the
Women's Relief Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic of
the Civil War Veteran's, where she was the Pianist.
In May, 1968, Emma and Jesse moved to their mountain cottage in
Evergreen, as the family was grown and married, by this time.
In June, 1970, Emma and Jesse retired from their jobs, Emma had
23 years of nursing and Jesse had been employed for the United
States Government as a Firefighter at Lowry Air Force Base. He
had 27 years in Government Service. They purchased a Janitorial
Service doing Commercial and Residential work for three years.
The business tripled in size and they sold out the Commercial
work and kept the Residential work, retiring again in 1980.
In April 1978, Emma and Jesse joined Hampden Hills Baptist Church
in Englewood, Colorado, where their former pastor and longtime
family friend was pastor. While attending Hampden Hills Church,
Rev, Perry wanted to build a new church in the Southwest area
of Littleton, in Ken Caryl. Emma and Jesse with ten other members
helped build this new edifice, "Church of The Savior,"
moving into the new building in November, 1981. Rev. D. Raymond
Parry died of Cancer in June, 1984. Rev. Ray Kearney took over
the Pastorate and continued the work of building up this church
and retired in 1984, also dying of cancer December 31,1991. On
Easter Sunday, April 5, 1992, they joined Evergreen Baptist Church.
Having been a nurse for twenty-three years - fifteen of that in
doctor's offices, she still had nursing in her blood, so became
the first woman to apply as an ambulance attendant on the Evergreen
Volunteer Ambulance.
At the time of her passing, she and Jesse had 3 children, fourteen
grandchildren and twenty four great-grandchildren. Emma has devoted
her life to doing "things" with them and for them -
taking four to eight, at a time, on trips, touring the great state
of Colorado, with so many interesting places to see or trying
to locate family historical places - also taking some of them
on trips through-out the United States, visiting the Hallowed
Ground of "Shiloh", the Memorial Park, where their ancestor,
George Washington Jackson fought in the Civil War, over 130 years
ago.
Through Emma, the family also has been Certified as a "Territorial
Family of Colorado since her grandmother, Ophelia Ann (Heatley)
Stevens was born at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the Platte
River, in Colorado Territory, Sept. 3, 1861.
Emma was very involved in the family history and genealogy. She
began searching for her family roots after her father passed away
in 1952. He had left a small scrap of paper with names of persons
to be notified in the event of his death and this is what Emma
May started with. She did her research the old fashioned way and
never used a computer. When her daughter, Mary came home from
FL., in 1996, she passed her enthusiasm on to her.
On May 23, 2000, Emma and Jesse moved to a Retirement Community,
where she, as usual made many friends and continued with her genealogical
research. Emma comes from a long line, dating back to year 160
A.D. and descending through Charlemagne, William the Conqueror
and many Kings and Queens, as well as the most important, the
commoner.
She was a great lady and will be sadly missed by friends and family,
but especially by her husband, Jesse. Emma May was laid to rest
at Chapel Hill Cemetery, Littleton, CO. on May 27, 2003, at 2:30
p.m.
Emma's own words:
"There are undoubtedly 300-500 ancestors, descendants, or
relatives, that were born, died or still living in Colorado. There
are many tragic memories of loved ones who have left us, mostly
at an early age in life, and it has been only a great faith in
a Loving God, that these tragedies have been made easier, also
with the help of a loving husband, so it is with love that I devote
these pages to my husband, Jesse G. Noland, who has always been
there, over the years, when I needed him. This year, we will be
married Fifty - Seven years, November 8, 2003.
I only hope I have been able to instill in my children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren, a true love for this beautiful state
and these great Rocky Mountains, that I love so much. I also hope
I have been able to create one little spark of love in you for
your fellow man and to help you keep your "Great Ship of
State" on a straight and narrow course through life, so that
when I am gone, you will have happy memories of me, as I did for
my devoted parents, Edgar C. and Mary E. Stevens and my two great
and loving grandmothers, Ophelia Ann (Heatley) Stevens and Livonia
Deborah (White) Jackson. There is a long line of Military History,
with ancestors and descendants serving in various branches of
the United States, relating back to King Phillips war, the American
Revolution, Civil War, Spanish American War in Cuba, WW I, WW
II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf Conflict, Desert Storm
and the present war in Iraq, besides those seeing service in Peacetime."
Her genealogical research will be carried on by her daughter,
Mary.
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