City Emergency Management Agency

Charles 'Charlie' Stevenson Dies

Services set for Noon, Tuesday, Aug. 12

August 6, 2014 | 2 min reading time

This article is 11 years old. It was published on August 6, 2014.

In Memoriam

 City Emergency Management Agency Commissioner Gary A. Christmann announced Monday via Twitter that CEMA lost a longtime employee, volunteer and close friend -- Charles "Charlie" Stevenson.  "Charlie was a fixture at CEMA, reporting to work each day, even after his retirement in 2003," Christmann tweeted.

Stevenson served not only CEMA but also with the City's Emergency Medical Services Bureau prior to joining the CEMA staff.  In honor of his years of dedicated service to the people of St. Louis, the City of St. Louis Emergency Management Operations Center was dedicated to and renamed the "Charles Stevenson Emergency Operations Center" in Jan. 2009.

Funeral arrangements for Charlie Stevenson are as follows: 


William C. Harris Funeral Home  ( http://www.wcharrisfd.com/)
9825 Halls Ferry Rd., 63136
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
Services 12:00 PM 

Cemetery Laurel Hill 

Charlie will be greatly missed.  To his family members, his colleagues at CEMA and his many friends, the members of the City Service express their deepest sympathies.

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  • Department:
    City Emergency Management Agency
  • Topic:
    Employees

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