LOUISE WYATT COLLECTION
Reams C. Shepherd
Apr 18, 1899 – Aug
17, 1982
Dover –Reams C. Shepherd, 83, died
Tuesday in Nashville Health Care
Center after an extended illness.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Anglin Memorial Chapel
with the
Rev. Melvin Dunaway officiating. Burial
will be in the Hall Cemetery, Indian Mound.
A retired farmer, Mr. Shepherd was a resident of Indian Mound. He was born April 18, 1899, in Stewart
County, a son of the late Drew and Nannie Givens Shepherd.
His wife, Ida Atkins Shepherd, died in 1973.
Survivors include six sons, James and Hulin
Shepherd, both of Indian Mound, Jerry and Jesse Shepherd, both of
Clarksville;
Reed Shepherd, Paris, Tenn.; and Horace Shepherd, Louisville, Ky.;
three
daughters, Nannie Lewis, Indian Mound; Marie Rougemont, Dover; and Tina
Carney,
Clarksville; five brothers, Smith, Archie, Morris, Calvin and Joe
Shepherd, all
of Indian Mound; 30 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Douglas Shepherd, Daniel
Shepherd, Lewis Shepherd, Reed Mann, Kenneth Austin and Neal Byrd.
(Note:
Reams C.
Shepherd was married to Ida Atkins Shepherd, daughter of Eula Lee
Norfleet and
Milton Smith Atkins. See obit for Ida
Atkins Shepherd.)