The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, February 9, 1996               TAG: 9602090421
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B9   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: FREDERICKSBURG                     LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

QUITA M. STEPHENSON

Mrs. Quita Mellott Stephenson, 87, formerly of Edenton, N.C., died Thursday, in Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg.

She was the daughter of the late William and Betty Alice Hendgardner Mellott and a retired typist for the U.S. Army Finance Department.

Surviving Mrs. Stephenson is her husband, Edward Henry Stephenson; daughter, Joyce S. Johnson of California; two sons, Edward H. Stephenson Jr. of Washington, D.C., and John Bond Stephenson of Arlington, Va.; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at noon Saturday in the Evans Funeral Home Chapel, Edenton. Burial will follow in the Beaver Hill Cemetery.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

by CNB