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Adelia Ross Stevens
Nov. 7, 1995
Adelia Ross Stevens, 96, of Glen Summit and Wilkes-Barre lived in both ,
died
Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre General HospitalBorn on June 23, 1899, in
Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of the late U.S. Army Maj. Charles J.
and Sarah C. Maffet Stevens.
She was a direct descendant of General Ross of the Pennamite Wars and
Jonathan Edwards, first president of Princeton University.
She was a graduate of Vassar College, class of 1921.
She was past secretary of the YWCA Girls’ Reserve Group and the Wyoming
Valley Civil Defense during World War II. She was past president of the
Georgetown Settlement and the Wyoming Valley Garden Club. She was one of the
founders of the Wyoming Valley Fine Arts Fiesta and served as its secretary
for many years.
She was a former member of the Wilkes-Barre Junior League; the Wyoming
Historical & Geological Society; the Wyoming Valley Art League.
She was a volunteer at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
She was a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre.
Surviving are a niece, Margaret Sharpe Clark, Dover, Mass., and a nephew,
William Stevens cq , Oak Bluff, Mass.
Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. Friday in St. Stephen’s Episcopal
Church, 35 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, with the Rev. David Feyrer cq
officiating.
Interment will be in the Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre.
Friends may call at the church’s Kirkendall cq Room following the services.
Funeral arrangements are from the Harold C. Snowdon Funeral Directors.