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Carolyn Shepherd Obituary

CAROLYN FAYE SHEPHERD, 49, passed away November 10, 2025. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at the Wallace Funeral Home & Chapel, Barboursville. Burial will follow in Baylous Cemetery. She was born September 19, 1976, in Huntington, a daughter of the late Ellis Vernon Shepherd and Patricia Elaine Painter. She is survived by one daughter, Jamey Gillenwater; three sons, Preston Ellis Shepherd, Travis Johnathan Shepherd and Jerry Byron Gillenwater; one sister, Kimberly Shepherd; two brothers, Shawn Shepherd and Jerry Shepherd; and seven grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m Wednesday prior to the service.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.timeformemory.com/wallace.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Herald-Dispatch on Nov. 18, 2025.

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