ECHOLS, Ky. — Edna Mae Shepherd, 61, of Echols, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. She was born in Cutshin, Kentucky, on Jan. 23, 1956, to the late Sim and Oma Coots Mitchell.
Mrs. Shepherd was a homemaker and loved spending time with family and friends.
Aside from her parents she was preceded in death by three sisters, Margarine Sizemore, Mallie Joseph, and Nadine Holstine.
Survivors include her husband of 44 years, Lowell Jack Shepherd; children, Edna “Marie” Shepherd, Jacqueline “Ladonna” Steele, Jack “Dwayne” (Jessica) Shepherd, and Lowell “Jason” (Stacy) Shepherd, all of Ohio County, Kentucky; grandchildren, Skyler Steele, Austin Steele, Laci Minton, Jasmine Steele, Arron Shepherd, Eli Shepherd, Isaiah Shepherd, and Jack-Elliott Shepherd; seven brothers, Elmer Mitchell, of Florence, Kentucky, Wilmer (Pauline) Mitchell of Camden, Ohio, Jimmy (Maxine) Mitchell and Danny (Glenda)Mitchell, both of Yeaddiss, Kentucky, Timmy (Nannie) Mitchell, of Thousandsticks, Kentucky, Michael Mitchell, of Hazard, Kentucky, and Stanley (Barbara) Mitchell, of Smilax, Kentucky.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 6, at William L. Danks Funeral Home in Beaver Dam, Kentucky with Bro. Johnny Hood officiating. Burial will follow in Echols Cemetery in Echols, Kentucky. Friends may visit with Mrs. Shepherd’s family from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. until the time of the service Saturday at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at www.danksfuneralhome.com.