Dwight Pharis Stevenson, 81, of Great Falls, passed away peacefully in hospice care on Friday, November 5, 2021. The first of three children, Dwight was born to Alice and Orville Stevenson on September 23, 1940, in Clark County, Kentucky. In 1950 the family moved to Carrollton, Ohio, where he graduated high school in 1959, and Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, graduating in 1963. Following completion of Air Force Officers' Training School in San Antonio, Texas, Dwight was assigned to Malmstrom AFB as a Missile Launch Officer in the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron. During this time he met and married his wife, JoAnn Staff Stevenson, and completed an MBA degree with the University of Montana. After a twenty-one-year active duty career, he was employed at the 341st Contracting Squadron for an additional 19 years of service before retiring in 2005. He is survived by his wife; two sons, Dwight S. (Elise Deladurantaye) and Thomas O.; three grandsons, Cameron, Caleb Remi; and two sisters, Daphne and Brenda Stevenson, of North Canton, Ohio.