Obituaries:  Elizabeth Sheppard, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       S-163
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 4, 1975
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Elizabeth Sheppard

  Services were at 11:30 a.m., Monday, Dec. 1, in Osborn Funeral
Home Chapel, for Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Sheppard of Shreveport, who
died Saturday, at Virginia Hall Nursing Home, after a long
illness.

  Officiating was Rev. Carl Crenshaw, associate pastor of
Morningside Baptist Church, assisted by Dr. Billy Smith, pastor
of Southside Baptist Church. Burial was to follow in Centuries
Memorial Park Cemetery.

  Mrs. Sheppard began the first school of practical nursing in
Louisiana at the Shreveport-Bossier Vocational Technical Center.
She retired from the Vo-Tech Center in 1973, after 25 years of
service. She was an instructor, and head of the practical nursing
program when she retired.

  A native of Powhatan, she was a Robeline High School graduate,
and obtained her B.A. degree from Northwestern State College. She
also was a graduate of the North Louisiana School of Nursing, and
did graduate work in nursing education at Louisiana State
University School of Medicine in New Orleans.

  Before beginning her nursing career, Mrs. Sheppard taught
English at Robeline High School. She also had served as a private
duty office and staff nurse, and hospital supervisor.

  She was a member of the Golden Circle Bible Class of Morningside
Baptist Church.

  Survivors include her husband, W. C. Sheppard; one son, W. C.
Sheppard Jr. of Shreveport; three sisters, Mrs. Willie Fay
Anderson, and Mrs. Margaret Dufor, both of Shreveport, and Mrs.
Irene Jones of Memphis, Tenn., and one grandson.