In Memory

John Shepard - Class Of 1963

I would like to have you include my brother John Shepard now deceased in 2004 as he was a member of this class during the 8th and 9th grades. He worked at the movie theater making popcorn and so a lot of people will remember him. He also had a paper route while we lived in Rockville. His pictures appear in the 1959 and 1960 yearbooks. He did graduate from Monon in 1963 and went to Sams Technical School now ITT. He hired on at IBM right away after that where he earned many awards. He became a staunch Republican in his later years and in addition to being a volunteer fireman, served on his local town council in MN, ran for other offices in MN and went to two Republican National Conventions as a delegate. He had two children, Jill, who serves in the MN Air National Guard and has been on missions to Afghanistan and Kuwait, and Jeffrey, a real mountain man who owns a trucking company in Aspen.

Submitted by: Ellen Shephard 7-4-09