Loyce Carrie Sheppard, age 94, of Stone Mountain, GA passed away on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. She was preceded in death by her husband Lee Sheppard, four brothers, and four sisters. She is survived by a daughter and son and 2 grandchildren. She was loved by all who knew her. She worked for the DeKalb County School System and had more friends than can be enumerated. She was a poet and loved her flowers. Memories are treasures, fragrant and sweet, to cherish and hold, forever to keep. Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Bethel Baptist Church with the remains placed in state at 10:00 A.M. Rev. Bob Howard will officiate. Interment Bethel Community Cemetery. In lieu of flowers please make memorials to the Bethel Community Cemetery Fund. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 4:00 until 7:00 P.M. at Wages & Sons Stone Mountain Chapel. (770) 469-9811. Atlanta Journal Constitution.
News Obituary Article from AJC written by Donna Williams Lewis:
Loyce "Hump" Sheppard was young in spirit, a trait that surely helped her survive the business side of school cafeteria chow lines until she was about 85 years old. Maureen May, her manager at south DeKalb County's Redan High School, said students liked to get in Mrs. Sheppard's serving line because she treated them fairly and always had something nice to say. "As an employee ... she could work circles around the younger employees, and she always went above and beyond her work assignments," Ms. May said.
Loyce Carrie Sheppard, 94, of Stone Mountain died Tuesday at DeKalb Medical at Hillandale hospital. The funeral is today at 11 a.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 1147 Panola Road in Stone Mountain. Wages & Sons is in charge of arrangements.
A Stone Mountain native, Mrs. Sheppard started work in DeKalb County school cafeterias in 1967 at Rowland Elementary School, school officials said. Most of her years with the system were spent at Towers High School and the last were at Redan High School, which she left in 1998, said her son.
She was a poet who loved flowers, garage sales, country music and family trips to Florida. And she loved her work, her son said, leaving Redan High School only after hip pain prevented her from working any longer.
News Obituary Article from AJC written by Donna Williams Lewis:
Loyce "Hump" Sheppard was young in spirit, a trait that surely helped her survive the business side of school cafeteria chow lines until she was about 85 years old. Maureen May, her manager at south DeKalb County's Redan High School, said students liked to get in Mrs. Sheppard's serving line because she treated them fairly and always had something nice to say. "As an employee ... she could work circles around the younger employees, and she always went above and beyond her work assignments," Ms. May said.
Loyce Carrie Sheppard, 94, of Stone Mountain died Tuesday at DeKalb Medical at Hillandale hospital. The funeral is today at 11 a.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 1147 Panola Road in Stone Mountain. Wages & Sons is in charge of arrangements.
A Stone Mountain native, Mrs. Sheppard started work in DeKalb County school cafeterias in 1967 at Rowland Elementary School, school officials said. Most of her years with the system were spent at Towers High School and the last were at Redan High School, which she left in 1998, said her son.
She was a poet who loved flowers, garage sales, country music and family trips to Florida. And she loved her work, her son said, leaving Redan High School only after hip pain prevented her from working any longer.
Loyce Carrie Sheppard, age 94, of Stone Mountain, GA passed away on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. She was preceded in death by her husband Lee Sheppard, four brothers, and four sisters. She is survived by a daughter and son and 2 grandchildren. She was loved by all who knew her. She worked for the DeKalb County School System and had more friends than can be enumerated. She was a poet and loved her flowers. Memories are treasures, fragrant and sweet, to cherish and hold, forever to keep. Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Bethel Baptist Church with the remains placed in state at 10:00 A.M. Rev. Bob Howard will officiate. Interment Bethel Community Cemetery. In lieu of flowers please make memorials to the Bethel Community Cemetery Fund. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 4:00 until 7:00 P.M. at Wages & Sons Stone Mountain Chapel. (770) 469-9811. Atlanta Journal Constitution.
News Obituary Article from AJC written by Donna Williams Lewis:
Loyce "Hump" Sheppard was young in spirit, a trait that surely helped her survive the business side of school cafeteria chow lines until she was about 85 years old. Maureen May, her manager at south DeKalb County's Redan High School, said students liked to get in Mrs. Sheppard's serving line because she treated them fairly and always had something nice to say. "As an employee ... she could work circles around the younger employees, and she always went above and beyond her work assignments," Ms. May said.
Loyce Carrie Sheppard, 94, of Stone Mountain died Tuesday at DeKalb Medical at Hillandale hospital. The funeral is today at 11 a.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 1147 Panola Road in Stone Mountain. Wages & Sons is in charge of arrangements.
A Stone Mountain native, Mrs. Sheppard started work in DeKalb County school cafeterias in 1967 at Rowland Elementary School, school officials said. Most of her years with the system were spent at Towers High School and the last were at Redan High School, which she left in 1998, said her son.
She was a poet who loved flowers, garage sales, country music and family trips to Florida. And she loved her work, her son said, leaving Redan High School only after hip pain prevented her from working any longer.
News Obituary Article from AJC written by Donna Williams Lewis:
Loyce "Hump" Sheppard was young in spirit, a trait that surely helped her survive the business side of school cafeteria chow lines until she was about 85 years old. Maureen May, her manager at south DeKalb County's Redan High School, said students liked to get in Mrs. Sheppard's serving line because she treated them fairly and always had something nice to say. "As an employee ... she could work circles around the younger employees, and she always went above and beyond her work assignments," Ms. May said.
Loyce Carrie Sheppard, 94, of Stone Mountain died Tuesday at DeKalb Medical at Hillandale hospital. The funeral is today at 11 a.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 1147 Panola Road in Stone Mountain. Wages & Sons is in charge of arrangements.
A Stone Mountain native, Mrs. Sheppard started work in DeKalb County school cafeterias in 1967 at Rowland Elementary School, school officials said. Most of her years with the system were spent at Towers High School and the last were at Redan High School, which she left in 1998, said her son.
She was a poet who loved flowers, garage sales, country music and family trips to Florida. And she loved her work, her son said, leaving Redan High School only after hip pain prevented her from working any longer.
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