CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Carl N. Shepherd Jr., 12 Jul 1999
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Carl N. Shepherd Jr.
07/13/99 
   Carl Newton Shepherd Jr., 73, 2073 Clairmeade Valley Road, Atlanta, 
Ga., died Monday, July 12, 1999, at DeKalb Medical Center following an 
extended illness.
   Mr. Shepherd was a native of Carter County and a son of the late Carl 
Newton Shepherd Sr. and Ocea Lea Shell Shepherd.
   Mr. Shepherd was a 1942 graduate of Happy Valley High School. He was 
also a graduate of Milligan College and received his master's degree from 
the University of Kentucky in 1950. He taught and coached at the Bourbon 
County High School in Paris, Ky., for two years. He retired from Equifax, 
Inc., in 1986 with 35 years of service as the Controller of the Canadian 
affiliate, Equifax, Inc. While with the company, he worked in Lexington, 
Ky., Kingsport, Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga.
   He was a member of the Broadway Christian Church in Lexington, Ky., and 
was also a member of the Toastmasters International, Civitan and the Sertoma 
International. He was a U.S. Navy Veteran of World War II.
   Survivors include his wife, Betty Rue Lawrence Shepherd, of the home; a 
brother, J.B. Shepherd, Elizabethton; two sisters, Frances S. Mottern and 
Mary Lynn S. Phillips, both of Elizabethton; two sons and daughters-in-law, 
David and Carolyn Ruth Shepherd and Carl Newton Shepherd III and Barbara 
Jean Shepherd, all of Atlanta, Ga.; two grandsons, Jon and Michael Shepherd, 
both of Atlanta, Ga.; two granddaughters, Jean Marie and Lauren Kay 
Shepherd, both of Atlanta, Ga.; and one aunt, Laura Grindstaff, Elizabethton 
Several nieces and nephews also survive.
   It was the request of Mr. Shepherd that he be cremated. A memorial service 
will be held at a later date in Atlanta, Ga. In lieu of flowers, memorials 
may be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Helen Wilson, 209 S. Riverside 
Drive, Elizabethton, Tenn. 37643.
   This announcement is a courtesy of Hathaway-Percy Funeral Home.