NORWAY – Theron Harold Stevens, 87, a direct descendent of Caleb Dalton Stevens (1776-1854), the first settler at the intersection of Stratton Brook and the Dead River in 1818, died on Dec. 14 at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway.

He was born on May 23, 1918, on Eustis Ridge at the old Stevens Farm. He attended the schools of the town of Flagstaff during his formative years. In 1949, Flagstaff was purposely flooded by Central Maine Power Co.

In 1941, he married Carolyn Blackwell of Stratton, who, before her death in April 1975, became a renowned fly fisher and owner of Stevens Lodge in Stratton.

He was a U.S. Army World War II veteran. He volunteered to serve with the 240th Engineers in the South Pacific, earning all the standard Asian Pacific combat medals and was honorably discharged as a technical sergeant in December 1945.

After World War II, Theron and Carolyn Stevens and their first son, Myron Stevens, lived on Blanchard Avenue, Stratton, in close proximity to the then Stratton Manufacturing Co. He had worked as a saw filer and wood stripper for Foster Manufacturing Co., was a renowned Maine guide for hunting and fishing resorts and a carpenter, building and repairing residential homes, Rogers Motel and the Stratton Hotel in Stratton for many years. His views of everyday life were very different and will be greatly missed by his family and friends.

As a disabled veteran of the U.S. Army, he was hospitalized many times at Togus Veterans Hospital for an injury sustained during Asian Pacific campaign.

Surviving him is his younger brother, Harold StevensJr.; and three sons, first son, Myron H. Stevens of Greenville, S.C., and wife, Carol, with children, Ben, Jackie, and children, Rita, Cheryl, Myron Jr., from Rochester, N.H., second son, Philip T. Stevens of Herndon, Va., and wife, Beverly, and children, Carolyn, Mathew, Christopher with wife, Tricia, and son, Collin, and third son, Caleb Stevens of Wilton and wife, Lisa, with children, Kathy, Martin, Christine with her two children, and son, Caleb Jr., and his five children from Phillips.

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