Age 84, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Gardens with Rev. John Cramer, officiating. Sergeant Stephenson died Sunday at his residence. Burial with full military honors will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6-8 pm Thursday at the funeral home. Sergeant Stephenson was born November 24, 1925 in Mount Pleasant, Texas, to Jessie R. and Lennie (Thacker) Stephenson, Sr. He grew up in Mount Pleasant and graduated high school. He married Ethel M. Pennington on September 6, 1951 at Texarkana, Arkansas. He served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and was retired at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on January 31, 1968. He had served three tours of duty in Germany. Following his retirement he worked for Sears and Roebuck for 13 years. He is survived by his wife, of the home; a daughter and son in law, Charlyne and Jim Minick, Mountain View, Arkansas; a son Steven Stephenson, Las Vegas, Nevada; a grandson and his wife, James J. and Leah Minick, Houston, Texas; two great grandsons, James Ryan and Austin Taylor Minick; Sisters in law and a brother in law, Frances Stephenson, Nacogdoches, Texas, Floyd and Marcella Riggs, Las Vegas, Nevada, Theola Nichols, Duncan, Oklahoma, Maxine Mansel, California, and Madeline Pennington, Durant, Oklahoma. A brother, Ralph Ben Stephenson, preceded him in death.