Richard John Stephenson

Some Day I'm going to take a flight without an aeroplane, I'm going to rise above the bird’s paths and nothing can retain.

Uncle Rick took that flight on January 15, 2025, after a long struggle with diabetes.

Rick was born February 12, 1955, in Spokane WA to Addie and Dave Stephenson. Rick and his siblings moved to California to live with their father in 1957. He served in the Military in both the Army and Navy where He worked as a Mechanic.

He Married his first wife in 1974, and they had 3 children: Micheal Scott, Jeremy Lee and Charity Marie. He has another daughter, Tiffany.

He is proceeded in death by his son Micheal Scott, Parents, and Grandparents.

He is survived by His sisters Margaret Cote of Spokane, Kathy Kascak of Othello WA and brother, Micheal Stephenson of Lexington, WA and half-sister Julie Ann Danielson of Clinton, WA. His children Jeremy Stephenson and Charity Stephenson, both of Spokane, and Tiffany Pedersen of Pullman, WA. He has many nieces and nephews.

A grave side memorial will be held on Tuesday, February 25th at Fairmount Memorial Park in Spokane at noon.