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      Mary Keith Stephenson (’41), Denton :: She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Spanish and a minor in English. She taught school for one year in Mirando City and worked as a codebreaker at the National Security Agency from 1943 to 1947 in Washington, D.C. Her family had a dairy farm in Canton for 12 years and a floral shop in Jacksonville for 20 years. She is survived by five children, including William H. Stephenson (’73) and Debra M. Stephenson Landis (’73), and a niece, Rita Joyce Stephenson Lokie (’73).
    

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