Dan Steven

Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada - Brainstorm Newsletter, Winter 2000, Issue 47 Music Gives Hope and Joy! A STORY ABOUT DANIEL CHRISTOPHER STEVEN By Jan Klooster. Editor’s note: This account has been written by Dan’s mother and is lovingly dedicated to honour Dan’s love of life and his gift of music. Jan and husband Rick serve as Conveners for the BTFC’s Brain Tumor Support Group in Chatham

Dan is a 23 year old Christian singer-songwriter-guitarist from London, Ontario who has been writing songs ever since…

FROM LIGHT INTO LIGHT Compiled by Patricia Westerhof I. PROLOGUE What Dan Steven’s mother wrote in an e-mail to friends in December 2002: “Dan told me several times as he was growing up that he would not make 27 years old. I would tell him, ‘Shush, don’t talk like that.’” The song that Dan Steven composed in the sand in Grand Bend in 1995, when he was 17 years old: I want you to dance at my funeral. I want you to celebrate your life. Yeah, I want you to dance at my funeral. In this…

Published by Essence Publishing, Guardian Books imprint, Belleville, ON, Canada. ISBN 978-1-55452-672-7. 

DANCE AT MY FUNERAL By Emily Geertsma Klooster Special to Christian Week, Canada's Leading National Christian Newspaper LONDON, ON—Last month I went to an amazing funeral where we celebrated the life of Dan Steven, who died December 6. The 25-year-old street musician and poet had battled a brain tumour for three and a half years. Dan left specific instructions about what he wanted to happen at his memorial service: “I want you to dance at my funeral,” he sang in a song he had written years…

Remembering Dan — a remembrance for Dan Steven, Dec. 9, 2002; by Laurence Steven, Dan’s Uncle When my brother Chris, Dan’s dad, asked me to offer a remembrance at Dan’s funeral on behalf of the Steven family, I was honoured, and a bit dismayed. After all, I have lived in Sudbury, six hours north of London, since 1983. I knew Dan as an uncle knows a nephew he sees occasionally; in other words, not well. And that was Chris’s point. My distance, he felt, might enable me to gather some perspectives…

Eulogy for Dan Steven, December 9, 2002 Kathy Sneller, Dan’s Aunt Daniel Christopher Steven was my nephew. I didn’t know him when he wore that bright green, furry, plush snowsuit – his cousin David wore it many years later. I did not get to smell his baby neck or watch him toddle around – those good aunt things. Dan entered our lives a bit later. It was a time when he and his mother were desperately needed. And there he was, climbing out of his mother’s car ready to meet a new set of grandparents.…

Eulogy for Dan Steven, December 9, 2002 Kim Philips, Dan’s Aunt What an honour it is speak on behalf of my family today. It is truly a privilege to pay tribute to Dan. Daniel Christopher Steven, Musician, Poet, Author, Philosopher. An awesome individual, who fought valiantly to overcome a brain tumour. Dan accomplished much in these past three and a half years. He recorded his first CD, Beggars and Kings all while undergoing Chemo and Radiation. He held several concerts, one at the ICS…