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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.

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