The LaGrange Daily News, November 8, 2003
Dernell Stenson
Dernell Renauld Stenson, 25, of 205 Cherry St. died Wednesday
in Phoenix, Ariz.
Mr. Stenson, born June 17, 1978, was the son of Mrs. Cora Stenson and
the late Rev. James Edward Stenson Sr. He was a 1996 graduate of LaGrange
High School, where he excelled scholastically and athletically. He was
voted Best All Round in his senior class, won the 1996 Duncan Award
for baseball, was the 1996 Most Valuable Player in the IP Baseball Classic
in 1996, won the 1996 Slugger Award and was the 1994 Granger Most Valuable
Player and was voted best pitcher in 1994. He was the 1994 Granger football
Most Valuable Player and was voted best lineman in 1994 and 1995.
He was third-round draft in minor-league baseball at the age of 18 with
the Boston Red Sox organization and stayed with them until the spring
of 2003, when he became a party of the Cincinnati Reds in August 2003,
moving to the major leagues shortly thereafter.
Survivors, in addition to his mother, include three brothers, James
and Beverly Stenson; Thomas Nelson Stenson and Richard Bernard Stenson;
four sisters, Sherry LaRose Stenson, Sheila and Dennis Prather, Marian
and Rawlin Tate and Lillian and Lige Wallace; and a number of nieces,
nephews aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10, 2003, at First
Baptist Church on the Square with Dr. V.F. Williams officiating. Burial
will be in Restlawn Memory Gardens.
The family will be at his home.
Lakes-Dunson-Robertson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
