Dale Stephens was active in his community and his church.  He had recently filed for re-election to the Florence City Council.

Dale Stephens is survived by his wife, Barbara, three children, six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.

Funeral arrangements are still pending at this time.

Ted Bushelman, Mel Carroll, David Osborne, Betsy Conrad, Julie Metzger Aubchon, and Dale Stephens are the current City Council members that have filed for re-election to the Florence City Council.

Curt Bessette, J Kelly Huff, Larry Brown, Larry Braden, Brian Rickert, Mike Howard and one other candidate have also filed for the City Council positions.  There is one additional person, whom we don’t have a name for as of yet.

We will update this story with that persons name as soon as we can obtain it.

The primary election will be held in May in order to narrow the candidate list to twelve individuals to be on the ballot in November.