Miss Annie Lucille Stevens, who, with her brother, the late Walter A. Stevens, donated Stevens Park to the city of Dallas, died suddenly Sunday at her home, 4103 Swiss. She had celebrated her sixty-sixth birthday Saturday.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the George A. Brewer Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bolton Boone officiating. Burial will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Miss Stevens, a member of one of Dallas' pioneer families, was president of the company which developed the Stevens Park Village, the Stevens Park Shopping Center, and was owner and developer of Stevens Park Estates.
She was born on a farm, part of which is now Stevens Park, to Dr. and Mrs. John H. Stevens. Her death occurred in the family home built in 1890 on Swiss.
Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church and a life member of the Dallas Woman's Forum.
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Annie Lucille Stevens was born on her parents' farm at what-is-now Stevens Park. Shortly before this first photo-portrait was made, Annie's widowed mother remarried; and in 1890 everyone then moved into a big new house across town in East Dallas. Annie lived there, with her brother Walter, for the rest of her life. Though big brother Walter acted as public spokesman in the meetings that organized the new "Kessler District" back in Oak Cliff, title to the remaining family wealth had all been left to Annie. It was she alone, signing as a "femme sole", who donated to the City of Dallas the first 40 acres for a Stevens Memorial Park (now mostly the municipal Golf Course), and it was she alone who platted the residential subdivisions named Stevens Park Estates and Stevens Park Village. Her signature alone sold vacant lots, and her signature alone was explicitly required on plans before construction was permitted of any new home in those neighborhoods. Miss Annie lived a quiet life -- private and unpublished. Never married, childless, she was long active in the Dallas Woman's Forum. Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church. Her last will & testament made several cash gifts, and established a Trust to disburse lifetime monthly-stipends to an older widow (Hilma Sylvester) and to future family descendants (Laura Eleanor Stevens). The "Annie L. Stevens Trust" is now managed through Foundation Dallas. After the death of its initial beneficiaries, the Trust's assignment was to aid needy children and elderly.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the George A. Brewer Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bolton Boone officiating. Burial will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Miss Stevens, a member of one of Dallas' pioneer families, was president of the company which developed the Stevens Park Village, the Stevens Park Shopping Center, and was owner and developer of Stevens Park Estates.
She was born on a farm, part of which is now Stevens Park, to Dr. and Mrs. John H. Stevens. Her death occurred in the family home built in 1890 on Swiss.
Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church and a life member of the Dallas Woman's Forum.
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Annie Lucille Stevens was born on her parents' farm at what-is-now Stevens Park. Shortly before this first photo-portrait was made, Annie's widowed mother remarried; and in 1890 everyone then moved into a big new house across town in East Dallas. Annie lived there, with her brother Walter, for the rest of her life. Though big brother Walter acted as public spokesman in the meetings that organized the new "Kessler District" back in Oak Cliff, title to the remaining family wealth had all been left to Annie. It was she alone, signing as a "femme sole", who donated to the City of Dallas the first 40 acres for a Stevens Memorial Park (now mostly the municipal Golf Course), and it was she alone who platted the residential subdivisions named Stevens Park Estates and Stevens Park Village. Her signature alone sold vacant lots, and her signature alone was explicitly required on plans before construction was permitted of any new home in those neighborhoods. Miss Annie lived a quiet life -- private and unpublished. Never married, childless, she was long active in the Dallas Woman's Forum. Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church. Her last will & testament made several cash gifts, and established a Trust to disburse lifetime monthly-stipends to an older widow (Hilma Sylvester) and to future family descendants (Laura Eleanor Stevens). The "Annie L. Stevens Trust" is now managed through Foundation Dallas. After the death of its initial beneficiaries, the Trust's assignment was to aid needy children and elderly.
Miss Annie Lucille Stevens, who, with her brother, the late Walter A. Stevens, donated Stevens Park to the city of Dallas, died suddenly Sunday at her home, 4103 Swiss. She had celebrated her sixty-sixth birthday Saturday.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the George A. Brewer Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bolton Boone officiating. Burial will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Miss Stevens, a member of one of Dallas' pioneer families, was president of the company which developed the Stevens Park Village, the Stevens Park Shopping Center, and was owner and developer of Stevens Park Estates.
She was born on a farm, part of which is now Stevens Park, to Dr. and Mrs. John H. Stevens. Her death occurred in the family home built in 1890 on Swiss.
Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church and a life member of the Dallas Woman's Forum.
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Annie Lucille Stevens was born on her parents' farm at what-is-now Stevens Park. Shortly before this first photo-portrait was made, Annie's widowed mother remarried; and in 1890 everyone then moved into a big new house across town in East Dallas. Annie lived there, with her brother Walter, for the rest of her life. Though big brother Walter acted as public spokesman in the meetings that organized the new "Kessler District" back in Oak Cliff, title to the remaining family wealth had all been left to Annie. It was she alone, signing as a "femme sole", who donated to the City of Dallas the first 40 acres for a Stevens Memorial Park (now mostly the municipal Golf Course), and it was she alone who platted the residential subdivisions named Stevens Park Estates and Stevens Park Village. Her signature alone sold vacant lots, and her signature alone was explicitly required on plans before construction was permitted of any new home in those neighborhoods. Miss Annie lived a quiet life -- private and unpublished. Never married, childless, she was long active in the Dallas Woman's Forum. Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church. Her last will & testament made several cash gifts, and established a Trust to disburse lifetime monthly-stipends to an older widow (Hilma Sylvester) and to future family descendants (Laura Eleanor Stevens). The "Annie L. Stevens Trust" is now managed through Foundation Dallas. After the death of its initial beneficiaries, the Trust's assignment was to aid needy children and elderly.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Tuesday at the George A. Brewer Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bolton Boone officiating. Burial will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Miss Stevens, a member of one of Dallas' pioneer families, was president of the company which developed the Stevens Park Village, the Stevens Park Shopping Center, and was owner and developer of Stevens Park Estates.
She was born on a farm, part of which is now Stevens Park, to Dr. and Mrs. John H. Stevens. Her death occurred in the family home built in 1890 on Swiss.
Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church and a life member of the Dallas Woman's Forum.
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Annie Lucille Stevens was born on her parents' farm at what-is-now Stevens Park. Shortly before this first photo-portrait was made, Annie's widowed mother remarried; and in 1890 everyone then moved into a big new house across town in East Dallas. Annie lived there, with her brother Walter, for the rest of her life. Though big brother Walter acted as public spokesman in the meetings that organized the new "Kessler District" back in Oak Cliff, title to the remaining family wealth had all been left to Annie. It was she alone, signing as a "femme sole", who donated to the City of Dallas the first 40 acres for a Stevens Memorial Park (now mostly the municipal Golf Course), and it was she alone who platted the residential subdivisions named Stevens Park Estates and Stevens Park Village. Her signature alone sold vacant lots, and her signature alone was explicitly required on plans before construction was permitted of any new home in those neighborhoods. Miss Annie lived a quiet life -- private and unpublished. Never married, childless, she was long active in the Dallas Woman's Forum. Miss Stevens was a charter member of the Grace Methodist Church. Her last will & testament made several cash gifts, and established a Trust to disburse lifetime monthly-stipends to an older widow (Hilma Sylvester) and to future family descendants (Laura Eleanor Stevens). The "Annie L. Stevens Trust" is now managed through Foundation Dallas. After the death of its initial beneficiaries, the Trust's assignment was to aid needy children and elderly.
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