Thomas Wade Sheppard
1949-02-16 2021-09-19Rev. Thomas Wade Sheppard
February 16, 1949 – September 19, 2021
REV. THOMAS WADE SHEPPARD - Age 72, - of Cedartown, GA passed away Sunday, September 19, 2021 at a local Health Care. He was born February 16, 1949 to the late Rev. Leonard Freeman and Marie Griffin Sheppard in Summerville, Georgia. Three brothers preceded him, Robert Ware, Edgar Lee Sheppard,
and Leon Freeman Sheppard, loving bonus mother,Elizabeth Henry Sheppard.
He was an Owner Operator Truck Driver for over twenty-five years,
Manager of Delta Dental for over twenty years, and he was currently
employed as a Bus Driver for the Polk County School System. As well as
an Associate Pastor of Galilee Baptist Church, and was
a United States Army Veteran of the Vietnam War and
was Honorably Discharged.
Survivors are his loving and devoted family, sons, Reginald (Monica) Sheppard, Sr., Maurice (Ann) Sheppard; daughters, Rosalind Sheppard, Michelle (Rohan) Burton of Akron, Ohio, Danielle Sheppard of Sacramento, California; thirteen grandchildren, five great great grandchildren; sisters, Doris (John) Jelks of LaFayette, Georgia, Queenie Braziel of Akron, Ohio, Angela Stevenson of Atlanta, Georgia; brother, William (Victoria) Sheppard of Akron, Ohio; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends.
Homegoing Celebration will be on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 1:00 P. M. at Galilee Baptist Church, 136 Galilee Road, Cedartown, Georgia 30125 with Dr. Kenneth Brown as the Eulogist. The family will receive friends at the church one hour before the service. Interment, Polk Memory Garden. Arrangements by Willis Funeral Home, Inc., Dalton, Georgia.