Our Calendar | Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Scotts hobbies included, Fishing, camping, and kayaking. You have permission to edit this article. Our Locations | In the past, Matthew has also been known as Matthew P Shepard. [11][9] McKinney and Henderson offered to give Shepard a ride home. [22][23][24], Shepard was pronounced dead six days after the attack at 12:53a.m. on October 12, 1998. We will continue to work tirelessly to ensure safety, visibility, and inclusiveness for the entire LGBT community until that ideal becomes reality. His younger brother, Logan, was born in 1981. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Mary Freeman Sheppard to show support. Matthew Shepard died on Oct. 12 in a Colorado hospital, surrounded by family. Obituaries in Springfield, MO | News-Leader [81] His was the first interment of the ashes of a national figure at the cathedral since Helen Keller's fifty years earlier. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Matthew Shepard (9481)? Midwest Cremation and Funeral Services, LLCalso offers a variety of caskets, urns, remembrance jewelry, Thumbies (fingerprint jewelry), and personalized remembrance quilts. During their trial, Henderson and McKinney claimed that they had panicked after Shepard had allegedly made sexual advances on them; they also claimed that they had only intended to rob him, and not to kill him. [49] In response, Romaine Patterson, one of Shepard's friends, organized a group that assembled in a circle around the Westboro Baptist Church protesters. Matthew Scott Shepard, 44. [18] Police officer Flint Waters arrived at the scene of the fight. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Because MyLife only collects this data and does not create it, we cannot fully guarantee its accuracy. Best of Springfield; Sports; Obituaries; Legal Notices; X. Matthew Shepard interred in . person will not be tolerated. His talents include, devil sticks, juice harp, and hacky sack. accounts, the history behind an article. In the evening hours of Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who was openly gay, went alone to the Fireside Lounge in Laramie after a meeting of the campus LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) student group and a quick stop at the Village Inn.
