A member of the Kountz Memorial Lutheran Church in Omaha passed on Wednesday, March 8, 2006. She was born on August 19, 1940 to Horace (Jeff) and Thelma Blackburn who farmed north of Mitchell, Nebraska. She graduated from Mitchell high in 1958. On June 17, 1961 she was married to her husband of 44+ years, Lewis F. Stevens. She is survived by her husband, two sons, James J. and wife, Angela Stevens of Papillion, NE and Lewis L. and wife, Renatta Stevens of Los Alamos, NM, a grandchild Matthew J. Stevens, two sisters, Charlotte Lodes of Sidney, NE and Donna White of Mitchell, NE and several nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her father, Horace A. Blackburn, her mother Thelma (Lankford) Blackburn, and a brother Eugene Blackburn. After she was married she and her husband moved to Lincoln, NE where she attended the University of Nebraska and graduated with distinction with a BS in Education in the summer of 1964. Subsequently, they lived in Hasley, NE where she was employed with the Nebraska National Forrest. In 1966 they moved to Omaha, NE where her husband worked for Mutual of Omaha and where she became employed by Union Pacific Railroad. She worked for the UPRR until such time as their first son was born in 1970. From that time on she dedicated herself to being a full time Mom to her two sons and to making a home for her family. She enjoyed gardening, attending to flowers in the yard, keeping up the lawn, volunteer work at the schools, church activities, bible study and taking short trips with her husband looking after a farm north of Omaha she and her husband had invested in. Delpha and her husband moved into Ralston in 1983 where she has resided with her husband until the time of her passing. Interment Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery. Memorials requested to the Delpha Stevens Ovarian Cancer Awareness fund.
