Grace Rogers Shepherd, age 95, formerly of the Stamey Cove Community died Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at Silver Bluff Nursing Home. She was a native of and had resided in Haywood County most of her life. She was one of 14 children born to James Baxter and Celia Shipman Rogers. In addition to her parents and siblings, she was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Woodrow Shepherd, who died in 2001 and two sons, Gary and Doyt Shepherd She was a member of Maple Grove Baptist Church. She was an avid fisherman, loved to go to flea markets and Fontana lake. She also enjoyed sewing and she especially loved her grandchildren. She is survived by three sons, Everett Shepherd and his wife, Madeline, and Eugene Shepherd and his wife, Peggy, both of Canton and Carroll "Mack" Shepherd and his wife, Rose, of Candler; nine grandchildren, Karen Sims, Donna Shepherd, Jeanine Reed, Tracie Pace, Anthony, Erica, Shannon and Chad Shepherd and a special granddaughter, Tammy Little and ten great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at Maple Grove Baptist Church with the Reverend Tommy Carlisle officiating. Burial will follow at Piney Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at Wells Funeral Home of Canton where the body will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes prior to the service. Pallbearers will be grandsons and Thomas Sims, Bill Holbrook and Don Fisher. Flowers are acceptable and appreciated or memorials may be made to Piney Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery Maintenance Fund, c/o Johnny Woody, 542 Reed Cove Road, Waynesville, NC 28786.
3715 Asheville Hwy.
Canton, NC 28716
2501 Stamey Cove Road
Canton, NC 28716
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