Steven George Bazil

Steven George Bazil died peacefully on August 1, 2026, at the age of 75. He was born on December 18, 1950, in New Prague, Minnesota, and grew up in Montgomery, Minnesota; Buhl, Idaho; and Sacramento, California, before finally settling in Carmichael, California — the place he would call home.  He was a 1969 graduate of Casa Robles High School in Orangevale, California. 

Steven worked at Gemco (later Lucky Stores) for 34 years, retiring in his early fifties. Even then, he wasn’t ready to fully let go. He continued working part-time for several more years just to stay close to the business, his co-workers, and the customers he’d come to know so well.

In 1984, just one year into his sobriety, he met Kathy, who became his loving wife and best friend. Together they shared many years of adventures. 

Steven loved and adored his sons, Steven Bazil (Shelby), Kevin (KB) Bazil, and Kevin Brady. He was the proud Grandpa of Kylie Bazil and the proud PaPa of Nolan and Cade Brady, and he claimed two more grandchildren as his own — Cierra and Kevin.

He grew up in a big, loving family as the oldest of eight children: Connie Warner (Ted), Linda Breckenridge, Bill Bazil (Ann), Michael Bazil (Patti), John Bazil (Kim), and Ted and Dougie Bazil, both of whom preceded him in death. He also loved and adored his 15 nieces and nephews and 17 great-nieces and great-nephews. He will be missed by all his family, near and far.

Steven was known by family and friends as a great man. He loved his family deeply, and his friends just as much. He had many friends; he could make one standing in line at the store. In 1983, he graduated from the Betty Ford Center after an intensive 28-day treatment program for alcohol, and he liked to say he could hold an AA meeting in a parking lot with a total stranger. He shared what he knew freely and was always ready to help. Whether it was a neighbor’s son or daughter, a fence that needed building, a friend or family member who needed to move, or a car that needed fixing, even if it took all night so his wife would have one to drive to work in the morning.

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