Inger Stevens: September 2021

If you're like me, you learned new details of Inger Stevens' life through Jerry Lem's original Inger Stevens Memorial Site, first launched in 1997 by site owner Fenelon. Sadly, Jerry passed away on December 23, 2017, and his Inger website disappeared from its hosting site shortly thereafter. Currently, the only way to view Jerry's tribute to Inger is via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine; it preserves some of Jerry's work, but much of the original content cannot be accessed due to broken links and other issues.

After reading brief, often inaccurate details about Inger in books and before reading William Patterson's biography The Farmer's Daughter Remembered, it was Jerry's website that provided me with the photos and information about Inger I so desperately sought. Losing Jerry and his site in such an untimely manner was a tragic affair. The yearning I felt for his lost site was one of the catalysts to my creation of a new space for Inger online. I never knew Jerry personally, only admired his dedication to Inger from afar; however, Inger fan and Jerry's friend Steve Folkes created two Youtube videos talking about both Jerry and Inger's legacies. You can watch those and learn more about the wonderful Mr. Lem here: Part 1 and Part 2.

The Wayback Machine is a useful resource for browsing past updates of the original Inger Stevens Memorial Site, but can prove to be a bit tricky and time-consuming to navigate. As an act of admiration and gratitude to the late Jerry Lem, I wanted to include some of the photos—I was only able to save them in low resolution—as well as that site's biography on Inger here so that fans can easily discover Jerry's steadfast dedication and diligent work surrounding Inger's life. All of the photos below were originally on the Inger Stevens Memorial Site and none of them belong to me; I am only sharing them here in memory of and with abundant respect for Mr. Lem. (To any Inger fans who may have shared their collection with Jerry: If one of these photos belongs to you and you do not want me to share it here, please contact me and I will remove it.)

Click here for a PDF file of Jerry's Biography on Inger circa 2012. If you have trouble viewing the PDF online, you should be able to click the download icon at the top and view it that way.