Mary Frances Shepard

1909 - 1987  (78 years)

• Name	Mary Frances Shepard
  Birth	1909	Hertford, North Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 May 1987	Alberta, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I15279	Clan Montgomery
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2005

  
  

  Father	Lyman Shepard,   b. 1889, Westwood Grove, Raleigh, Virginia d. 1952 (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Ellen Beaty Thurkle,   b. 1879, London, England d. 1958, Alberta, Virginia, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1908	Hertford, North Carolina
  Family ID	F4982	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Meade Flinn,   b. 1892, Alberta, Virginia, USA
  Marriage	1 Aug 1934	Alberta, Virginia, USA
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F4984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Mary Frances was a Latin Teacher whose poetry was published in the Poetry Cosity of Virginia's Anthology in 1985. She married Meade Flinn of Alberta. VA on Aug 1, 1934. Her obituary notice in the Richmond paper. May 18, 1987, gives this account of her life: "A funeral for Mrs. Mary Frances Shepard Flinn, a retired teacher of Latin and English in the Brunswick County schools was held today at Trintiy=St. Mark's Episcopal Church here. (Alberta,VA). Burial was in Holdy Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetary in Hertford, N.C. "Mrs. Flinn, whose career spanned 27 years, died Saturday in a Rcihmond hospital. She was 78. "She was known for translating poems from Latin and for original poems about the Perquaman River area of the Outer Banks of North Carolina ner Albemarle Sound. " A native of Hertford, N.C. Mrs. Flinn granduated in 1930 from what is now Longwood College. She was a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia, the Alberta Woman's Club and the Hicksford Chapter of the American Revolution and a charter member of the Alberta Book Club. "Survivors include her husband Meade Flinn, tow sons, Lyman Meade Flinn and Robert Strudevant Flinn of Alberta."