OBIT: Mervin B. SHEPPARD, 1947, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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MERVIN B. SHEPPARD

  Mervin B. Sheppard died Thursday evening, June 19, at 8 o'clock at his home, 
230 Large Street.
  In the tonsorial business for 50 years, he, with two brothers, Reese B. and 
Theodore, owned and operated the Sheppard Brothers Barber Shop on Main Street.
  He was a son of David R. Sheppard,, a native of Baltimore and pioneer barber 
of Meyersdale, and Josephine (Purdy) Sheppard of Cumberland, and was born in 
Baltimore, October 14, 1879.  He was unmarried.
  He is survived by three brothers - the two mentioned above, and Jonce, of 
Baltimore, and by four sisters - Misses Kate, Emma and Mary Jane, at home, and 
Mrs. W. R. Hurst, Washington, D.C.
  Friends were received at the Sheppard home until 3 p.m., Sunday, when services 
were conducted there by Rev. Stanley G. Schwind, pastor of St. Philips' 
Episcopal Church, Cumberland, which the Sheppard family attends.  Interment was 
made in Union Cemetery, under direction of W. C. Price and Son.

Meyersdale Republican, June 26, 1947