BLOOMINGTON — Stephen Charles Stumpf, 32, Bloomington, passed away Saturday (April 10, 2010) at his home.

Funeral service will be 5 p.m. Thursday at the Open Prairie United Church of Christ, Princeton. Dr. Rev. Martha Burnell will officiate. Burial will be private at a later date. The family will receive friends from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday at the church. Memorials may be directed to Open Prairie United Church of Christ.

He was born Dec. 5, 1977, in Princeton, to Stephen E. and Susan Swanson Stumpf. He graduated from Princeton High School in 1996, from Augustana College in 2000 with a bachelor’s in psychology, and from Illinois State University in 2002 with a master’s in psychology. He worked for Heartland Behavioral Health as a licensed clinical psychologist counselor. He was an active, charter member of Open Prairie United Church of Christ.

He is survived by his parents, Stephen and Susan Stumpf, Princeton; one sister, Amy (Joe) Taylor, Bloomington; one uncle, Jim (Victoria) Swanson, Princeton; great-aunts, Gladys Mohr, Princeton, and Marie Swanson, Metamora; and cousins, Brian Swanson and Eric (Kelly) Swanson.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Richard and Elaine Swanson and Edward and Lela Stumpf.

Norberg Memorial Home, Princeton, is caring for the family.

Stephen was a writer for Out & About Magazine from it's first issue, writing articles about the finding the positive in our lives.  Stephens last article is in the issue of O&A that will be out this week.  Thank you for your contribitions to the LGBT community.  You will be sorely missed.

Lesbian author, Jean Hutchinson, died December 11, 2008, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, at the age of 68.  A resident of the St. Louis area at the time of her death, Hutchinson was a retired high school English teacher who only started writing at the end of her first career.  Hutchinson, along with her partner, Marcy Jacobs, wrote and published under the pseudonym of Jean Marcy.  From 1997 until 2003, the writing couple published four mysteries that featured the private detective Meg Darcy and her on again off again lover, police detective, Sarah Lindstrom.  In 2000, Jean Marcy’s book “Mommy Deadest” won a Lambda Literary Award for Best Mystery.  Hutchinson is survived by Marcy Jacobs her partner, in life and writing, of 23 years, and uncounted students, friends and readers whose lives she touched.