- Date Of Birth: March 15, 1935
- Date Of Death: June 10, 2016
- State: Idaho
Don Ray Stephenson passed away on June 10, 2016 at Country Time Assisted Living Home. He was the son of Kenneth Stephenson and Lillian Cutler Stephenson; born on March 15, 1935 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
As a child he lived with his four brothers and one sister in Boise, McCall, Emmett and Nampa where they settled. He attended one-room schools with poor teachers and city schools. Summers he worked in the fields to support himself and his education. (He always thought of himself as a “farm boy” the rest of his life.)
As a high school graduate he attended B.Y.U.
After college he worked for three years as a counselor and teacher at Palo Verde College in Blythe, California. He then went to the East Bay Area to work on his P.H.D. at U.C. Berkeley. After earning his P.H.D. he moved his family to San Jose to run a counseling department at San Jose City College for two years. But after batteling student riots, tear gas and police lines at Berkeley and then at San Jose, Don decided to move his family back to Idaho.
At College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls he served as an administrator at first but decided he liked teaching better so he became the psychology professor and taught counseling. He taught extension classes for two Eastern Idaho Colleges—to support his “teaching habit”. After almost thirty years at C.S.I. he retired.
After retiring he moved his family to the Boise Area to help his sick brother, mother and a single-mother daughter.
He served in numerous callings in the L.D.S.
Don leaves behind two brothers and a sister, five children: Shelly Green, Renee Marlette, Mack Stephenson, Glen Stephenson, and Annette Keddington. In addition he left twenty grand children and six great-grand children.
