Lou Isabel Hodge Stevenson

Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Monday, January 14, 2008 in the chapel of Ralph Buckner Funeral Home with Reverend Tom Moncrief and Reverend Tom Wickes officiating. Interment will be held at the Pine Haven Cemetery in Scottsboro, Alabama at 3 p.m. eastern time on Monday. Her family will receive friends from 6-9 p.m. Sunday, January 13, 2008 at the funeral home. Lou Isabel Hodge Stevenson passed away Friday, January 11, 2008 at Memorial Hospital of Chattanooga. She was born on April 24, 1932 in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up in Lebanon, Tennessee. Lou married Jerry Eugene Stevenson on July 8, 1954. They lived in several states but spent 35 of their 53 years of marriage in Cleveland, Tennessee. Lou was always busy. Her work experience included a bookkeeper in several banks, sales clerk at a jewelry store, collection agency collector, Tupperware representative, volunteered in her local church, raised four children and cared for her aging parents and in-laws in her home. She was always involved in some sort of craft during her life. In the past fifteen years Lou learned and taught ceramics from her home based business, Cindy Lea Creations. She taught all ages and many groups. Lou won many awards for her work, as did many of her students. Excellence was always her goal. In the 1980?s Lou founded Care Assurance System Aging, CASA, in Scottsboro, Alabama, coordinated assistance from local and state agencies for elderly people. Lou and Jerry traveled often and were pleased to say they had visited every state of the United States of America and several foreign countries. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Tennessee. She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Isabel Hodge of Lebanon, Tennessee and her brother, Roy David Hodge of Charleston, South Carolina. She is survived by her husband, Jerry Stevenson of Cleveland; four children and spouses: Cynthia Lou Byrd and Michael Byrd of Paducah, Kentucky, Michael Eugene Stevenson and Janelle Stevenson of Hampton, Georgia, Rebecca Lea Guhne of Cleveland, TN and Kenneth Alan Stevenson and Jana Stevenson of Smyrna, Georgia; seven grandchildren; one great-grandson; two sisters: Betty Anne Wright of Nashville, Tennessee and Frances Williams and husband, James Williams of Smithville, Tennessee; several nieces and nephews also survive.