Frieda D. Stevenson

By Staff
August 6, 2006
A graveside service for Frieda D. Stevenson, 83, of Birmingham was Wednesday, Aug. 9, at 10 a.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery in Morgan County. A memorial service will be Friday, Aug. 11, at South Highland Presbyterian Church.
Services were directed by Johns Ridout's Funeral Parlors Southside Chapel.
Mrs. Stevenson died Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006, at University of Alabama Hospital after a brief illness. She was born and raised in Morgan County, the daughter of Ira and Roxie Dobbs. She moved to Birmingham after graduating from Cotaco High School in 1941 as the valedictorian of her class. She married William Alfred Stevenson of Ashland in 1942. He preceded her in death in 1997.
In addition to being a loving mother and grandmother, Mrs. Stevenson was an accomplished writer whose work was published in the Birmingham Arts Journal. She was a member of South Highland Presbyterian Church, where she worked in the nursery for many years and performed volunteer service. She was a regular at Jazz Vespers at Southside Baptist Church, where she also performed volunteer service. Working as her husband's assistant in his magic act gave her a love for the performing arts, which she later expressed by entertaining audiences in Birmingham as a clown with the Magic City Clown Club. She also loved to travel, visiting Mexico a number of times and learning Spanish as well as traveling extensively throughout the U.S.
She is survived by a daughter, Janet Stevenson of Atlanta; a son, Mark Edgar Stevenson of Birmingham; two grandsons, John Edgar and Daniel Mark Stevenson; a brother, James Doris Dobbs of Hartselle; three nieces, Pamela Dobbs Winstead of Huntsville, Paula Dobbs Smith of Madison and Anne Winton of Hartselle; and a nephew, David Whitten of Decatur.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Alabama Chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation or the Adult Day Care Center for persons with Alzheimer's disease at South Highland Presbyterian Church.