Stephen Zane Long, 62, died Wednesday, April 16, 2008, in the Dallas VA Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, of complications following surgery.

He was a 1963 graduate of Osawatomie High School. Mr. Long was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and attended college in California.

His parents, Byron Zane and Frances Galbraith Long, and his grandparents, Ben and Pearl Galbraith and George and Olive Long, preceded him in death.

Survivors include his daughter, Abigail Long of Kansas; two sisters, Judith Long Culey of Olathe and Ann Long Crane of Statesville, N.C.