Personal Life and Death
On December 24, 1912, Stevenson married Fay Wright. The couple had one son, Coke Stevenson Jr. She died on January 3, 1942, and is buried at the Junction Cemetery. Stevenson did not marry again until January 16, 1954, when he married the widow Marguerite King Heap. Marguerite had one son Dennis from her marriage to Gordon Marshall Heap, who died in action during World War II. Coke and Marguerite had one daughter, Jane Stevenson. Marguerite died March 24, 2010 in Ozona, Texas.
Coke Stevenson died on June 28, 1975, in Shannon Memorial Hospital in San Angelo, Texas, and is buried at the Stevenson Family Ranch Cemetery.
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