Sheppard, Henry Lawrence    

MARSHALL -- Funeral services for Henry Lawrence Sheppard, 
49, of Longview, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, February 18, 
2006, at Texas Louisiana Association Building on Highway 
43 North, with the Rev. D.D. Richardson officiating. 
Burial will follow at the Rose Hill Gardens Cemetery. 
Henry Sheppard was born July 14, 1956, in Marshall, to 
Fannie and the late Calvin Sheppard. He passed away 
Sunday afternoon, February 12, 2006, surrounded by family. 
Henry Sheppard attended and graduated from Marshall High 
School. He entered the U.S. Army, where he spent three 
years of his life. He was then employed at Eastman 
Chemical Company, where he worked for 20 years. He was 
affiliated with Canaan Baptist Church at an early age, 
and later became a member of the Willow Springs Baptist 
Church, where he was an avid member. Henry was preceded 
in death by his father, Calvin Sheppard; and two sisters, 
Gwendolyn Reese and Sharon Sheppard. He is survived by his 
wife, Deborah Lavelle Sheppard of Longview; two sons, 
Dorcus and Lekiesha Sheppard of Fayettville, N.C., and 
Lawrence and Aisha Sheppard of Portsmouth, Va.; four 
grandchildren, Tyambria, I'chanti, De'aundre, and Makayla; 
his mother, Fannie Sheppard; two brothers, James and 
Natalie Sheppard of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Myron Lewis 
and Dyanne Sheppard of Longview; four sisters, Jeanette 
and Clarence Finney of Dallas, Carolyn Moore, Thelma Lois 
and Dilworth Gordon, and Vera Sheppard, all of Marshall; 
six sisters-in-laws, Vivian and Bruce Bolden of Jefferson, 
Carol and Robert High of Paris, Sharon and Hubert Coats, 
Cecelia Ann Williams, Carrie Smith, and Ethel Brown, all 
of Marshall; three brothers-in-law, James Washington, and 
Phillip and Valarie Washington of Marshall, and Darnell 
and Sandra Washington of Longview; and a host of nieces, 
nephews, other relatives, church members, co-workers, 
neighbors, and friends.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 2/16/2006.