Obituary

Ora Mae Stewardson, 78, of Plainview passed away on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in Amarillo. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday, June 25, 2010, in the Kornerstone Funeral Directors Chapel with the Rev. Don Robertson, pastor of College Heights Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Plainview Memorial Park under the care of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. There will be a visitation from 6-7:30 p.m. today, June 24, 2010, at Kornerstone Funeral Directors. Mae was born Nov. 24, 1931, in Tulia, Texas, to Hickman and Nancy Deen. She was raised in Kress and graduated from Kress High School in 1950. She worked as the office manager for Lemons Funeral Home for 40-plus years before retiring in 1993. She was a member of College Heights Baptist Church. She married Wayne Stewardson on Dec. 20, 1954, in Kress, Texas. Survivors include her husband, Wayne Stewardson of Plainview; two daughters, Becky York and her husband, Perry, of Canyon and Beverly Stewardson of Richardson; one sister, Pearlene Eubank of Waco; two grandchildren, Ashley York of San Antonio and Katie Hutto and her husband, Keaton, of Canyon; and one great-grandson, Hagen Hutto of Canyon. Memorials may be made to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, P.O. Box 199300, Dallas, TX 75219-9842 or College Heights Baptist Church, 802 Quincy St., Plainview, TX 79072. Online condolences may be made at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.