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Submitted: 6/1/14 • Approved: 6/1/14 • Last Updated: 7/9/23 • R1009144-G1009144-S3
Leroy
Dec 16,1906-Nov 7,1995
Son of Charles Riley and Annie Cynthia Morehouse Shepherd
Irma
Mar 6,1906-Apr 23,1992
Mrs. Irma Shepherd, 86, of Springdale died April 23, 1992, at Springdale
Memorial Hospital. She was born March 6, 1906, at Ridgway, Ill., the daughter of Otis and Georgia Matterlee Barton. She was a housewife and a member of the Farmer Freewill Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Leroy J. Shepherd of the home, to whom she was married on March 6, 1926; two sons, Kenneth Shepherd of Hindsville and Bobby Shepherd of Batesville; two daughters, Mrs. Anneta Cooper of Springdale and Mrs. Wanda Lee Laird of Huntsville; two sisters, Mrs. Jean McCoy of Springdale and Mrs. Hazel Barron of Goshen; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, in the chapel of Brashears Funeral Home with the Rev. Loren Collins officiating. Interment was in the Buckeye Cemetery under the direction of Brashears Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were Kenny Shepherd, Jesse Laird, Wilfred Laird, Allen Sloan, Tm Sloan, and Randy Sloan.
Contributed on 6/1/14 by bill060
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