PAUL SHEPHERD

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Gary "Paul" Shepherd, Advance Route 2, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Morgan Funeral Chapel. The Revs. Don Loughary and Clinton Massa will officiate, with burial in Brownwood Cemetery at Brownwood.

Friends may call at the funeral home Friday from 10 a.m. to service time.

Shepherd, 17, died Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1996, in a house fire at the home of a cousin.

He was born Dec. 25, 1978, at Oran, son of Gary and Beverly Loughary Shepherd.

Shepherd was a member of Christ Gospel Church in Puxico.

Survivors include his parents of Advance Route 2; a son, Paul of Advance; a daughter, Rachel of Grand Haven, Mich.; four sisters, Mellody Verble, Tammy, Crystal and Vicky Shepherd, all of Advance.