MILDRED L.  STEVENSON , 90, of Sioux City, Iowa, formerly of Cherokee, Iowa,  passed away Saturday morning September 29, 2018 at Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 3rd, at 10:30 a.m. at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, rural Aurelia, Iowa. Rev. Jeff Harris will officiate. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Aurelia, Iowa. There will be a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. at the church on Wednesday. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. with the family present from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com

Mildred was born May 5, 1928 at Primghar, Iowa to Chris and Sarah (Guthridge) Larsen. She graduated from Quimby High School in 1946. She was married to Theo L. Stevenson on March 11, 1949 at the Quimby United Methodist Church. She later attended Buena Vista College in Storm Lake graduating in 1974 with a Teaching Degree. She taught one year at I.C. Elementary School in Cherokee and in 1971 began teaching at the Galva Elementary School where she taught for 20 years. Then, in 1991 went to Galva–Holstein Middle School until her retirement in 1993. Following her retirement she would substitute teach in the Cherokee School System.

Mildred was a longtime member of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Pilot Rock Chapter of the D.A.R., Retired Teacher's Association, Retired Mail Carriers Auxiliary, volunteer for the American Cancer Society, and volunteered in the Family Crafts Building at the Cherokee County Fair for many years. She had been a resident of the Sunrise Retirement Community in Sioux City, Iowa the past five years and prior to this had lived in Cherokee from 1993 through 2013, and prior to this on a farm in Pilot Township, Cherokee County, Iowa for many years. Mildred was a woman of deep faith in the Lord. She will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She will be deeply missed by her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Theo on September 27, 2008, a son Thomas in January of 1980, a grandson-in-law Gene Gustafson, three brothers-in-law David Steffe, Garold Stevenson and Merlin Stevenson.

She is survived by her two daughters: Karen (Bob) Stark of Thornton, Colorado; Gail  (Grant) Haight of Sioux City, Iowa; a daughter-in-law Sherri Stevenson  of Aurelia, Iowa;   five grandchildren:  Staci (David) Krier, Suzanne Gustafson, Michael (Allison) Haight, Katie (Josh) Van Den Hul, and Lyndsay Stark; six great- grandchildren:  Thomas & Jackson Krier, Elizabeth and Victoria Gustafson, Theo Van Den Hul and Olivia Haight; two sisters: Shirley (Dirl) Steffe of Hot Springs, South Dakota; Joyce Steffe of Topeka, Kansas;  two sisters-in-law: Florence Stevenson of Galva, Iowa; Bernie Stevenson of Ankeny, Iowa; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.