Paula Schroader Stephenson

Paula Schroader Stephenson, 65, of Owensboro, passed away on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. She was born February 22, 1956 in Owensboro to Lee and Patricia Hancock Schroader. Paula was a retired registered nurse for River Valley Behavioral Health. She loved God, her family, animals especially cats. Paula enjoyed music, movies, astrology, and was a lifelong student of her precepts of faith, which is Christianity.

She was preceded in death by her son, Paul Murphy in February 2021; daughter, Jenny Murphy in 1971; half-brother, Chris Schroader; and a nephew, Tyler Schroader.

She is survived by her mother, Patricia Hancock Schroader; father, Lee Schroader; two sisters, Donna Schroader and Joyce Rae Derington; half-sister, Tammi Hudgins; daughter-in-law, Tracie Ryan Murphy; three nephews, Aaron Moseley, Andrew Derington, and Luke Geftos; great-nieces and nephews, Nathan Moseley, Issac Moseley, Halana Moseley, and Aidan Derington Murphy; and a great-great-niece, M.J. Moseley Burchfield.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Monday in the chapel at James H. Davis Funeral Home & Crematory. Burial will follow in Owensboro Memorial Gardens. Visitation is from 12 to 2 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to Daviess County Animal Shelter, 2620 Highway 81, Owensboro, KY 42301.