Margrett Delmoine Shepherd

© Enid News and Eagle

08-14-2015

Submitted by: Glenn

© Glenn

Funeral service for Margrett Delmoine Shepherd will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, at First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Susan Southall will officiate. Burial will follow at 1:30 p.m. at Alva Cemetery under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.

Delmoine passed away Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, at the age of 97.

She was born May 8, 1918, in Stillwater, Okla., to Stanley John Clingenpeel of Stillwater, and Edna Mae Ditto, who lived on a farm near Cushing, Okla.

She graduated from Classen High School in Oklahoma City in 1936, and from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., in 1939.

Her first teaching position was in Oolagah, Okla.

On Dec. 23, 1940, in Muskogee, Okla., she married David James Shepherd. To their marriage three children were born. Following their marriage they lived in Tulsa, Okla.

During World War II, Mr. Shepherd enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Washington University School of Dentistry in St. Louis, Mo., where Mrs. Shepherd worked, as her husband sought higher education.

In 1946, they moved to Alva, Okla., where Dr. Shepherd set up his dental practice.

The Korean War, 1950 to 1953, took them to Camp Polk, La., but they then returned to Alva. Mrs. Shepherd was a member of Alva First United Methodist Church.

She also was a 50-year member of PEO Chapter AL and a member of Eastern Star. She worked tirelessly for her church and the organizations to which she belonged.

Mrs. Shepherd was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and one sister, Genelle Harlan of Spiro, Okla..

Delmoine is survived by her daughter, Marianne Morgan of Edmond, Okla., and children Amy Helm and Ryan Morgan; her daughter and husband Elaine and Michael Akermann of Carmel, Ind.; daughter, Lee Ann Ridoux and her son and wife Dr. David J. Shepherd Jr. and Cyndy Shepherd of Enid, Okla., and children Jamey Shepherd, David Shepherd and Ashley Cunningham; as well as two sisters, Necia Elliott of Vinita, Okla., and Micki Weeks of Grove, Okla. She also has 13 great-grandchildren, which include Tyler and Jessica Helm, Maggie, Adison and Jace Morgan, Jay and Gabe Ridoux, David, Peter, Sadie and Annie Shepherd and Phoebe and Sylvie Cunningham.

Memorials may be made to Loaves and Fishes, OMRF-Lymphoma division, or the Ray Davis Scholarship Fund.

Condolences may be made to the family at www.enid wecare.com.

(Submitted by family)

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