KESHIA RENEE STEPHENS

OBITUARY FOR KESHIA RENEE STEPHENS

Miss Keshia Renee Stephens, age 17, of Smyrna, Tennessee, passed away Thursday, September 14, 2006, at the St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.

Funeral services were held Saturday, September 16, 2006, at the East Pine Knot Tabernacle Church of God with Rev. William Kilby and Bro. Harold Baird officiating. She was laid to rest in the T. Chitwood Cemetery.

Keshia was a student at Rock Springs Middle School in Smyrna and attended the Giles Creek Baptist Church.

She was born in Nashville, Tennessee on October 4, 1988, the daughter of Russell and Sharon King Stephens. She is the granddaughter of William and Ruby King of Strunk, Kentucky and the late Norman and Cordelia Stephens.

Besides her parents who reside in Smyrna, surviving family include three sisters: Amy West of Smyrna, Kim Campbell (and her husband Michael) of Springfield, Tennessee and Debra Ball (and her husband Darren) of Pine Knot, Kentucky. Her nieces are Kelsie Ball and Kaylee Campbell and nephew Kyle Ball. She has several aunts, uncles, cousins and other family who loved her and many others whose lives she touched and changed forever.

Pine Knot Funeral Home assisted the family with funeral arrangements.