Gloria Brown Stevens

On October 19, 2023, Gloria Jean Brown Stevens of Baconton, GA passed on from this world to the next journey of her existence. She was in the Augusta University Medical Center in Intensive Care where she took her last breath. Her death is preceded by her mother and father Alma Brown and Jewell Brown. She is survived by her husband Terry Eugene Stevens Sr, her brother Alvin Brown, and sister Sharon Hershberger. Three sons Travis Moore, Terry Lee Stevens, Terry Eugene Stevens Jr with spouse Dakota Stevens, and daughter Khristal Stevens, and many grandkids that she adored with all her heart. She is also a neighborhood mother and has “adopted” multiple friends into the family. Services will include a visitation Saturday October 21st from 6pm to 8pm at Kimbrell-Stern (1503 Dawson Rd. Albany, GA 31707) Afterwards, she will be cremated. A memorial will be set up at a later date. Heart wrenching as it was, we celebrate her life as she lived. The gentle grandmother, the firm parent, the loving wife, the stubborn daughter, the annoying sister, the cancer survivor, the smart-ass friend, and many more descriptors that describe our Gloria. For over 25+ years she was both a manager and assistant manager for the convenience store Flash Foods, which later became Circle K. Through those years she has met many people and befriended many of them. Some have become so close as to be called family. She was always warm to be around. Upbeat and lively and never seen to be moody. She always had a positive outlook on life and wanted others around her to have the same outlook. After 2022 rolled around however, her life changed, and she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. AML for short this cancer was aggressive, and she barely had time to process this before she was rolled into Augusta Cancer Center to begin chemo treatments. The chemo knocked her down a lot and she had her moments where she always questioned why her? In the end her brother was a perfect match for the bone marrow transplant. When November 9th came around, the transplant was initiated, and Gloria was born anew with a new bone marrow. As she recovered from her ordeal, she found a new appreciation for life. If you were to ask her about her time in Augusta, she would tell you that she is alive and that it was a beautiful thing to be alive. Unfortunately, circumstances as they were she would not live to see her first year as a cancer survivor. She will be forever missed by a lot of people. We love you dearly and hope you've got to cherish the life you lived on this earth. "To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here, we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is.... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it!”

Gloria Brown Stevens

May 8, 1966 - October 19, 2023