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- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
October 6, 2000
Dr. Jeanne Hibbard Stephens, a medical and civic leader in Oberlin, died Sept. 25 at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. She was 89.
Dr. Stephens practiced with her husband, Dr. James T. They spent the first three years of their careers working in the Scotch Run coal mining area outside Morgantown, W.Va., where she started a well-baby clinic. In 1942, they moved to Oberlin, where they were known as Dr. Jeanne and Dr. Jim. They helped establish Oberlin Clinic in 1962.
In the 1970s, they served as volunteers at Chogoria Hospital in Kenya. Their experiences were recorded in the 1993 book, "In the Shadows of Mount Kenya."
Dr. Stephens was born in Columbia, Mo. She graduated from Oberlin College with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1933, then earned a bachelor's degree in medicine at the University of Missouri. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1937 and married two days after her graduation. She and her husband interned at Cleveland City Hospital, now MetroHealth Medical Center.
She was a trustee of Oberlin College from 1968 to 1980, when she became an honorary trustee. She also served on the college's 1975 presidential search committee, the alumni board and alumni awards committee.
She chaired the medical staff of Allen Memorial Hospital and participated in the Oberlin City Health Commission, Medical Aid Committee, Lorain County Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Association and American Cancer Society. She was a trustee of the Center for the Sightless. Dr. Stephens also served on the Oberlin Board of Education. She was active in PTA and the League of Women Voters.
She and her husband were honored often. Oberlin College gave them the Distinguished Service Award in 1980. In 1989, they received a service award from the Medical Alumni Association of the University of Missouri and the Oberlin College Alumni Association medal in 1994. They were members of the First Church in Oberlin.
They helped bring the Kendal retirement community to Oberlin and, in 1993, were among its first residents. Its health facility was named the Stephens Care Center.
Dr. James Stephens died in 1998. A daughter, Sally Bracht Eglin, died last year.
Dr. Stephens is survived by a daughter, Ann S. Molyneaux of Wilmette, Ill.; a son, John B. of Columbus; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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