Shepard, Mrs. W.T. (Vinnie) 1866-1937

SHEPARD, TEALE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 2/26/2008 at 20:42:45

LeMars Sentinel
October 8, 1937

WIFE OF FORMER PHYSCIAN
HERE TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. W.T. Shepard, Long Time LeMars Resident, Dies in California

Dr. W. L. Downing received a telegram Thursday for Dr. W.T. Shepard, former
partner in the LeMars Clinic and prominent LeMars physician for many years,
announcing the death at Palo Alto, Calif., of Mrs. Shepard, where the
Shepard's have been living of late.

Mrs. Shepard, who had been in delicate health for a ling time, wrote only a
few days ago that she was feeling well and strong, and the immediate cause
of death was not stated in the message.

The body will be brought here for burial, accompanied by her husband and
son, Will.

Services will be held in the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. F.P.
Pfaltzgraff officiating at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon.

Dr. and Mrs. W.T. Shepard celebrated their golden wedding in Palo Alto March
16. They were married March 16, 1887, at Dundee, Illinois, and came
immediately thereafter to Hull, Iowa, where Dr. Shepard had located in 1886
after completing his medical course and taken the Iowa medical examinations,
receiving the highest grade that had been awarded up to that time. Dr.
Shepard was only 20 years of age when he began practicing in Hull.

Later he practiced in Albuquerque, Chicago and Denver, then returned to Hull
and in 1898 moved to LeMars and bought the practice of Dr. Gray. Retiring in
1935, he had spent almost fifty years in the active practice, thirty-seven
of them in LeMars.

Mrs. Shepard has been his constant companion and helpmate for fifty years
and despite delicate health took an active interest in the campaign for a
new high school, was a charter member of the Friday Club and of the P.E.O.
and a member of the Eastern Star. She was widely known in LeMars and held in
high esteem wherever known or associated.

She leaves her husband, W.T. Shepard and two sons, Dr. Will Shepard and Dr.
Chas. Shepard, who reside in Palo Alto, Calif.

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