STEVEN EARL FRENCH

On Thursday, July 03, 2025, Steven Earl French, of Wytheville, VA, entered into Heaven's gate and saw his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Born December 22, 1968, he was the son of Earl and Paulanna French of Bluefield, VA.  Steven graduated from Graham High School, Southwest Virginia Community College and Bluefield College.  He worked for Somic of America, Wytheville, VA.  Steven was loved so and was such a joy to know.  He never met a stranger.  If you met him, you were a friend.  He was preceded in death by his grandparents: Annie and Paul James and Vilda and Acie Gundisch.

Those left to cherish his memory are his daughter: Emily French; grandson: Eziekel Lee Sumpter, Eric Holden and Jeska Holden all of North Carolina; siblings: Jeff French and wife, Diana, David French and Beth Ann Beavers and husband, Joe.  Also surviving is his fiancé: Karen Steele and her family of Max Meadows, VA; a host of cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews that loved him dearly and he loved them.

A service to celebrate Steven's life will be held Tuesday, July 08, 2025 at Dudley Memorial Chapel at 2:00 P.M. with Pastor Jim Drake officiating.  Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens, with family and friends serving as pallbearers.

Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday from 1:00 P.M. until the hour of the service.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to your local animal shelter.

"For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in Heaven, not built by human hands...II Corinthians 5:1.