Jordan Brian Stevens

March 9, 1942 – April 16, 2026

The thing Brian would most want to be remembered for was how much he loved Grace. He always said that knowing her and being with her made him a better man, and he was always grateful to have her as his wife.

Brian was born in Utah but as a kid, he lived in New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Through junior high, he did lots of normal kid things, like playing football and singing in the Barrington Boys’ Choir.

On moving to Denver and becoming a teenager, Brian became a self-described “brat” though he was a very talented one. He taught himself guitar and formed a rock band in the basement. He painted murals on his bedroom wall of characters from Mad Magazine. He was so smart and rebellious at school that the guidance counselor was intimidated by him. His parents sent Brian to a military academy for a year, thinking it would straighten him out. It didn’t.

When Brian came home again, he and a buddy took the family car one day to drive to California, but they were arrested in Utah. Brian’s dad showed up, bailed them out, gave Brian ten bucks and a bus ticket to California to live with his uncle. When Brian turned 18, he joined the Air Force. After leaving the military, Brian moved to Alaska and homesteaded for about a year and a half and learned survival skills in the wilderness. By the time he left, he had long hair and a beard and looked a little bit like Charles Manson.

In his thirties, Brian cut his hair and became an award-winning real estate broker in Florida. Leaving Florida after several years, he followed his mom who by that time was living in Cottonwood. In Arizona, he developed a very successful website business.

It was there that he met Grace at a country western dance hall. They were both phenomenal dancers and soon started teaching others. They married in 2002. The two of them traveled, camped in National Parks, and spent time with Grace’s kids and grandkids (which Brian loved despite the fact that “they were very noisy”).

Through his life, Brian studied spirituality, mainly Buddhism, and positive mindset techniques like NLP and Silva. His family would describe him as extremely cheap in his own lifestyle, but incredibly generous to those he cared about. He was smart, funny, and in the last few years, was content living what he called “the bathrobe life” with Grace.

Brian is survived by his sisters: Laurel Stevens, Hawley Giordano, and Heather Estay. He is also survived by Grace’s son Xavier Robinson (and his wife Pati and children Eli, Aaron, and David) and her daughter Melissa Buranich (and her husband Jeff, their children Gabriel and Abigail, and grandson Jeremiah aka JJ).