Lois Stephens competed in dressage at the 1972 Olympics. She graduated from Southern Seminary in Buena Vista, Virginia, and later attended St. John’s University, graduating in 1953 with a mechanical engineering degree, but she later obtained a law degree, and was also noted to have a private pilot’s license. The 1972 US Olympic Committee media guide lists her as a housewife, and she was married to Claude Stephens, who was President and chairman of the board of Texas Gulf Sulphur Corporation. Mrs. Stephens trained horses out of Ossining, New York on their farm, Star Brook Farm, specializing in the training of Hanoverian breeds. She only began riding in 1966 to recover from several knee operations. The Stephens had three children together, Claude, Jr., Robert, and Patricia Lois. The couple also had a home at the Greenbrier in West Virginia.
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