He and several buddies joined the Army National Guard, and he worked for the Forrest Service before attending Ventura College, where he met his wife, Jean Shepard. They married New Year's Eve 1963.

She was born June 9, 1929 in Indianapolis to The Rev. Dr. Jean Shepard and Sue Swigert Lyne Milner. Her father, Senior Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church for 41 years, claimed, “It was a ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When Jean Shepard began to write short stories outlining his life, the storyteller never expected to translate to the big screen and become the classic holiday film ...

1. “If You Were Losing Him to Me,” Jean Shepard (1961) Written by June Carter and Helen Carter Jean Shepard’s fourth album, Heartaches and Tears, featured a song written by June and Anita ...

In 1965, Jean Shepard first released the slow country croon, penned by Cash and Carter. Oh you sit there and smile and you hold him by the hand You make him a failure and break him as a man Also ...

Margaret Anne Shepard, and Eleanor Jean Shepard; and one grandson, Benjamin Louis Shepard. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, July 12 at 2 PM at Central United Methodist Church.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — The widower of country music singer Jean Shepard was trying to protect his granddaughter when he shot and killed a 21-year-old man in Hendersonville early Saturday ...

Carson and Kallie Shepard; mother, Jean Shepard; brothers, Gary (Cheryl) Shepard and Ralph (Linda) Garwood; and a sister, Linda (Bob) Dallman. He is preceded in death by his father and a brother ...

Jean Shepherd would like America to know two things about him: (1) who he is, and (2) that although he has become rich by spinning whimsical yarns about growing up in the warm heartland of World ...

Benny Birchfield, the husband of the late Country Music Hall of Fame singer Jean Shepard, was stabbed and his granddaughter killed Saturday. Birchfield was found outside of his home by police ...

Police are investigating exactly what led to two people being killed and one man stabbed at the home of the late Country Music Hall of Fame artist Jean Shepard. By Associated Press & Billboard ...