Will Be Held in the East

JOPLIN, MO – Funeral services for Charles M. Shepherd, 60 years old, Joplin, Missouri tax and insurance consultant whose body was found Tuesday night in the East River in New York City, will be conducted at St. Albans, N. Y. Burial also will be in a cemetery at St. Albans. Day of the services had not yet been determined.

Mr. Shepherd, whose home address was 816 Richmond Road, went to New York two weeks ago on a business trip.

He came to Joplin in 1944 to accept the position of assistant treasurer of the Empire District Electric Power Company and four years later was elected treasurer and as a member of the board of directors. He resigned in February of 1954 and since that time had been associated with the Paul Jones Insurance Company with offices in the Frisco building.

According to information received here from New York, Shepherd, who had been despondent for several weeks, had left the home of a brother in New York about a week ago, leaving his luggage and briefcase at the brother’s home, and had not been seen since then.

FAMILY NOTIFIED

His wife, Mrs. Clara Olive Shepherd, and two stepsons, John and Tom Shepherd, did not accompany him to New York. They were notified of the death by the Jasper County sheriff’s force.

Mr. Shepherd was born May 10, 1895, in England and attended elementary schools there before coming to the United States to complete his education. He majored in business administration at New York University.

He worked with the Cities Service Company in New York City from 1919 until 1943, when he became vice president and secretary-treasurer of the Ohio River Power Company, staying with that organization until comping to Joplin.

Mr. Shepherd was a member of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Joplin Consistory No. 3, Shrine, Elks lodge and the Kiwanis Club. He was also a member of Twin Hills Golf and Country Club and the Joplin Club.

Surviving besides the widow and two stepsons, all of the home in Joplin, are four brothers, Leslie Shepherd of St. Albans, Joseph Shepherd of Dunellen, N. J., Roy V. Shepherd and Claude Shepherd of New York City; two sisters, Sister Marietta, an Episcopal nun at the convent of St. Anne in Arlington Heights, Mass. and Mrs. Ruby Bullock of Sag Harbor, N. Y. and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Shepherd will be at the Manhattan home of her cousin Helen Frampton Stegen while in the east for the funeral.