Florence Cazort Byrd Stevenson

Florence Cazort Byrd Stevenson died on January 25, 2016, in Schertz, Texas. She was born January 1, 1922, in Weldon, North Carolina to Florence May Cazort and Daniel Brian (Brigadier General, U. S. Army) Byrd. She is survived by her two sons, Howard Gardner Stevenson of Seattle, Washington and Brian Byrd Stevenson of Arlington, Virginia; two nieces, Amy Belle Avery Schulz and Helen Avery Wieters. She is preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Marybelle Byrd Avery. Flo attended the University of the Ozarks, received the B. A. degree in English from the University of Arkansas in 1943, the M. A. degree in Counseling and Student Personnel from Ohio State University in 1963, attended Harvard University and received the Ph.D. degree in Adult and Continuing Education from Michigan State University in 1973. She spent much of her career working in higher education: as Dean of Women at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, UCLA in California, George Washington University in Washington, D. C., the Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C. and other institutions of higher education. She also established her own businesses: habit control clinics and the Count Pulaski bed and breakfast which she operated for six years before retiring completely. She always enjoyed many types of music, literature, flowers and gardening, entertaining - both giving and going to parties, travel. She lived in France, Germany and Japan and visited over 40 foreign countries altogether, also visiting all 50 of the United States and lived in 14 of them. In her later years, without any formal training, she started painting in oils and wrote for her children the story of her (and their) life. She belonged to Kappa Kappa Gamma National Sorority, was an honorary Mortar Board, joined the Daughters of the American Revolution. As was sometimes said of her, "She said,'yes' to life!".

Florence Stevenson will be buried in the Cazort Family cemetery in Lamar, Arkansas, among her grandparents, great grandparents and other ancestors.