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red by Dad
Loss of father motivates C90 owner to pursue dreams
by MeLinda Schnyder
L onnie Steverson feels like he’s living Joey Steverson didn’t get to do these things
himself because he died in an accident 25 years ago. Lonnie was just 20 at the time and was chasing his dream of becoming a rodeo star. Losing his dad gave him a dose of “life is short and live like it’s your last day” that motivated him to continue pursuing a career as a professional bull rider, earn his pilot’s license and eventually return home to carry on the family business in south central Mississippi.
out his father’s dream: he’s working and
growing the company his parents Joey and Jill Steverson started in the 1980s, he built a house just down the road from the business in Prentiss, Mississippi, where he recently added a 3,000-foot grass runway on his 20-acre property and he regularly flies his father’s 1977 Rockwell Commander 114 along with a Rans S-7 light sport aircraft and a 1975 Beechcraft King Air C90.
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