Birth date: May 24, 1930 Death date: Mar 2, 2023
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To our Dearest Sherman and Darnette and all of Mama Sheard’s Family
We are Thinking and Praying for you all. Our condolence on the passing of Mama Sheard, a beautiful and Dear Mother, Grandmother and Great Grand Mother. May God bless you all with many Precious and Wonderful memories.
Mama Sheard will be greatly missed by all.
Our Love always,
Christine and Steven Lloyd -Jones
your Family in London, England
No words can express the depths of your loss. May the grace and comfort of God be with the family at this time. Sister Sheard and my mother were friends from their meeting in 1961 till my mothers death in 1974. Whenever I saw Sister Sheard she always expressed how much she missed my mother who was her friend. Sister Sheard and Pastor Sheard Sr will always be missed as I hold treasured memories and both were a blessing to me and my family. May God continue to Bless the Sheard Family.
My condolences and prayers to the Shepard family. Our family has known Bishop Shepard and Mother Shepard since they came to California in 1961. Attending their church set the foundation for a blessed life for me and my family all the days of my life. Love and blessings, Danita Small
My beautiful Mary & my brother Billy was at Clarks
home in New Jersey. I was also there and they both would look at me and say how much I look like their daughter and grand daughter. I was looking at my brother Billy and thinking how we both look just like our Dad Manuel Sheard. I love and miss them both.
But I know they still Live on through their five beautiful daughters and five handsome sons.
My prayers are will all of you today and always.
You will are remain in my memories & Heart ❤️
Please stay Close. Love Auntie Sindy Sheard Talley🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️🌹
I remember when we were little kids visiting the church on Popular Street in West Oakland with my Aunt Mattie (Big Mama). But my most significant memory was my 8-year-old birthday party in 1963. It was the day Pastor Billy Sheard and First Lady Mary Sheard visited Big Mama at the 6th Street house in Berkeley. In the old Southern tradition, when the Pastor visited, there was traditionally a big spread of food. Then with Pastor Sheard and First Lady Mary Sheard visiting on my birthday, their visit made my birthday the biggest Birthday party ever for an 8-year-old. We had a big barbeque, lots of food and cake. There were about a dozen watermelons, it was the works for a birthday party. Pastor Sheard had a big family, so when his whole family came, there were many kids at my Birthday party and we all played together and had a lot of fun. Big Mama made the biggest cake, and before we cut the cake, everybody sang happy birthday to me and then I made a wish and blew out the candles. Unbeknown to me at that time, that years later my brother George would fall in love with Gail, the Pastor's daughter, and they would raise a family together. We grew up as a family in Christ and then family by marriage, too. Over the years, I'll never forget my personal visits with Pastor Sheard and the deep one on one conversations we'd have about faith and salvation. In particular, our conversation on the topic "once saved, always saved" and "can one lose their salvation." I still remember the interesting point Pastor made about Judas. The most endearing memory that stuck with me that I still hold today was what I saw in him in how he looked at Mother Sheard. I believe that as Mother Sheard got older, throughout their years of marriage, he always saw her as the young lady he fell in love with when he swooped her off her feet and married her. During the early years of my marriage, I used to always say to myself that I hope I'm able to see my wife the way Pastor Sheard saw Mother Sheard through the years...and I do... Rest in Power Mother Sheard. We will always remember and love you!
