Lisa Marie Sheppard

Published 12:01 am Friday, July 29, 2016

Dec. 10, 1970 – July 20, 2016

NATCHEZ — Services for Lisa Marie Sheppard, 45, of Ferriday, who died Wednesday, July 20, 2016, at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Word of Faith Ambassadors Worship Center Outreach with the Rev. Robert Cade officiating.

Burial will follow at St. Mary Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Concordia Funeral Home in Ferriday.

Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Sheppard was born Dec. 10, 1970, in Ferriday, the daughter of Johnnie Franklin and Annie Watkins.

She was employed by Riverland Medical Center as a certified nursing assistant.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Zan Russell and Robert Franklin; and one sister, Janet “Faye” Franklin.

Survivors include her husband, Kelvin Sheppard; one son, Kelvin Sheppard Jr.; two daughters, Breanna Watkins and Lashonna Sheppard; raised as her own daughters, Whitney Johnson, Brittany Johnson and Jemica Johnson, all of Ferriday, and Tracey Johnson of Baton Rouge; 13 brothers, Ronnie Watkins, Timmie Watkins and wife, Linda, Leonard Watkins, Anthony Franklin, Samuel Jackson, Johnny Jackson, Warren Neal, all of Ferriday, James Franklin of Vidalia, Larry Franklin of Springfield, Mass., John Franklin, Jim Johnson of New Orleans, Michael Castle of New Roads, La., and Rayfield Franklin of Houston; four sisters, Judy Johnson of Houston, Mable Martin of Melville, La., Helen Franklin and Mary Franklin of Ferriday; 12 grandchildren; two aunts, Louise Jolla and Marie Tennessee; mother-in-law, Elizabeth Sheppard and husband, Hershey Williams; three great-aunts, Lizzie Powell, Willie Montgomery and Mildred Davis, all of Ferriday; and a number of other family and friends.

Online condolences may be sent to concordiafuneralhomeinc.com.