Andrea Louise Stevenson

Andrea Louise Stevenson, 70, passed away on September 24, 2026, in Deer Valley, Utah, a place she dearly loved. Born on November 2, 1955, at French Hospital in Los Angeles to John and Elaine Clymer, she was a Southern Californian through and through.

Andrea grew up on Pine Street in Manhattan Beach, in what her sister Leslie calls the quintessential Southern California childhood. She and Leslee rode their bikes to the beach every day, as long as they were home for dinner. Summers meant volleyball at the beach or bicycling on the strand, with pickup games, surfing, and then back to the sand for another round. Andrea was small, but she was known as a really good player, always better than her size suggested. Every Thanksgiving, the family traveled to Redwood City to spend the holiday with Uncle Frank Lohman, taking Route 1 and visiting Sequoia National Park. The tradition continued in Palos Verdes after Frank married Audrey Reynolds, and it carried on every year.

Andrea attended Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, and later worked for Continental Airlines before becoming a homemaker. Her sister Leslee worked for Peter Stevenson at Environetics, and that connection led Andrea and Peter to each other. As it turned out, they were both Mira Costa alumni. It was love at first sight. They became engaged at Disneyland in 1982 and built their life together in Laguna Beach. She was Peter's partner in everything, including Stevenson Systems, the company he founded, in which she was directly involved from its earliest days. In later years, they established a second home in the mountains of Utah, where they continue to ski Deer Valley with their family and friends.

Faith was the center of Andrea's life. She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and carried a prayer in her heart every day. She loved to study the scriptures and read widely, and she believed that "by small steps can great and unexpected blessings flow into your life." She found joy serving in the Newport Beach Temple, where she made treasured friends. She admitted that some prayers were answered "not at all as I wanted," but she grew thankful over time, because the outcome was "so very much better."

Andrea noticed beauty everywhere, from snow falling "like powdered sugar" on the trees of Utah to the flowers she loved in her yard. She stayed curious all her life, encouraging others to read, look up the words they didn't know, and stay interested in the world and its people.

Above all, Andrea treasured her family. She was known as "Beach Grandmother," a title she called "a wonderful blessing in my life, now and forever." She cheered at ballet recitals, celebrated birthdays with cake and gifts, and delighted in watching her granddaughters grow into "beautiful daughters of God." She was always there to help people in need or a shoulder to lean on. She loved helping without being acknowledged. Through every change, she held onto her hope: "Life is good, but also ever changing, and the gospel of Jesus Christ is a beautiful, hopeful blessing."