Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, November 1, 1993 TAG: 9311010230
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: BEDFORD LENGTH: Short
OBIT SHEPHERD, H. VIRGIL
SHEPHERD, H. Virgil, 94, of Rt. 6, Bedford, died Saturday, October 30, 1993
in Bedford County Memorial Hospital. He was born in Bedford County on June 10,
1899, a son of the late Samuel Henry Shepherd and Geneva Whorley Shepherd. He
was preceded in death by two wives, Rennie Jane Spradlin Shepherd and Mary
Frazier Ransom Shepherd, a son, William Josephus Shepherd and a daughter, Mary
Virginia Shepherd. He was the retired owner and operator of Shepherd Store and
was a member of Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church. He is survived by two
daughters and sons-in-law, Kitty S. and Jake McVey, Roanoke, Marie S. and
Jimmy Overstreet, Bedford; three stepsons, Corbin Ransom, Salem, Everett
Ransom, Christiansburg, Bobby Ransom, Bedford; two stepdaughters, Frances R.
Calloway, Bedford, Louise R. Taylor, Chesterfield; two grandchildren; six
great-grandchildren; numerous stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Tuesday, November 2, 1993, at the
Carder-Tharp Funeral Chapel, with the Revs. John C. Mitchell Jr. and Daniel C.
Craig officiating. Burial will follow in the Spradlin Family Cemetery. The
family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the Carder-Tharp
Funeral Home, Bedford.
by CNB