Stephany Marie Kizer Peterson

January 10, 2018

Stephany Marie Kizer Peterson , 51, died Sunday January 7, 2018 at her home in Perdido Key, Florida. Stephany was born at U.S Marine Corps Air Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii on September 29, 1966 to the late LTCOL. James P. and Marie Kizer. After about a year, the family traveled from Hawaii to California. Over the next twelve years, as LTCOL Kizer moved to assignments in the U.S. and Vietnam, the family travelled back and forth between California, North Carolina, and Virginia. Stephany and her family often spent much of their summers in Atmore Alabama enjoying the warm days with her grandparents, extended family, and with friends. Stephany, like all Marine brats, attended several elementary and middle schools. In the summer of 1978, following LTCOL Kizer’s retirement from the Marine Corps, the family moved from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California to Atmore, Alabama.

Stephany attended Escambia County Middle School in Atmore and spent three years at Escambia County High School. She transferred to Ernest Ward High School in her senior year and graduated in 1984; after graduation she attended Auburn University. Stephany later determined that her destiny was not Auburn and instead traveled to Grapevine, Texas and began Flight Attendant Training with American Airlines. She spent nearly 5 years as a flight attendant with American Airlines living in New York and Grapevine, Texas where she married her children’s father. She and her husband moved to LaFayette, Louisiana and were blessed with the birth of her first son, Patrick Casey Byers, on December 8, 1993. The family later moved to Jupiter, Florida where she was again blessed with the birth of her second son, Bradley Joseph Byers, on December 2, 1997. In 2000, Stephany and her husband divorced, and she moved to Tequesta, Florida.

To be closer to her family, Stephany and her two boys moved to Orange Beach, Alabama in 2007. In 2011 Stephany embarked on a new chapter in her life when she and a partner opened Ya Ya’s Restaurant. Stephany, supported by her associates, served as not only the owner, but also as the cook, waitress, and chief bottle washer! In 2012, Stephany met David E. Peterson and the two dated for the next 5 years. On April 8, 2017, Stephany and David were married and moved to Perdido Key, Florida.

Stephany Peterson’s survivors include two sons, Patrick Casey Byers and Bradley Joseph Byers, her husband David Peterson, and his children John Thomas Peterson, Michael Peterson, and Ashley Peterson; her brother James P. Kizer Jr. and wife, Beth, of Navarre, Florida, her brother Steven J. Kizer and wife, Michelle, of Gulf Shores, and two nephews James Garrett Kizer and Spencer Joseph Kizer. Rite of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. January 12, 2018 from Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home with Father Milsted officiating. Interment will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery. Family will receive friends from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home.

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  1. Mary Byers on September 9th, 2022 11:32 pm

    Stephany leaves many broken hearts who miss her desperately, including her precious sons Casey and Bradley. They will always have a loving Aunt Mary, cousins James and John Lecocq to turn to, we love you so, Casey, and Bradley. Call on Jesus, He is close to the broken-hearted and will heal. Love, and prayers.

  2. Dean Dagen-Daw on January 11th, 2018 7:17 am

    My prayers and deepest condolences to Stephany’s family. I am truly saddened to hear of her passing. Always such a bright and positive person. May God wrap His arms around this family and comfort them all.

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