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Thursday, May 15, 2025
City Announces Former City Administrator and Councilman Joe Shepard’s Passing
Texas Cookin” Guy Clark Don’t forget that the fundraiser for Mr. Morris tonight is at the Texas Roadhouse ANNA location, not Sherman. If you need some music to listen to on the way to get hungry try this one above– some lyrics are “I could eat the heart of Texas, We gonna need some brand new jeans! Ain't that Texas cookin' something, eat it everyday if I could! Don’t “ruin your supper” eating all those glorious rolls with cinnamon butter beforehand, you need your appetite, it’s for charity! Besides, I know from personal experience, if you ask they’ll send some home for later, with ya! EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
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Obituary For Joseph Eli Shephard, Jr. Joseph Eli Shephard, Jr., 70, of Howe, Texas, passed away on May 4, 2025, in Denison, Texas Joe was born in Heidelberg, Germany to Joe and Dorris Shephard on September 4, 1954. He experienced a true Army education from bePhoto Credit: City of Howe Website
ginning kindergarten in children Joey (Joseph Eli Hawaii, to graduation in Shephard, III) and Candi Lawton, Oklahoma. He Shephard. began his higher education with Cameron College in He married Sandra King Lawton, eventually com- on March 28, 1993, in pleting his bachelor’s de- Wichita Falls, Texas. gree Summa Cum Laude They brought into this at Midwestern State Uni- world another son, Matversity in Wichita Falls, thew Shephard. Joe conTexas sidered his children his greatest achievement. All Joe married Sherry three carry on qualities of McCarley, September him from his dry sense of 1972, just after graduating humor and quick wit to high school. This marriage his love of reading and created two wonderful (Continued on page 9)
Texas Roadhouse Fundraiser Connections Park is Update TONIGHT! Ashley Husbands The 10-acre spot for Connections Park has new updates of things coming to the park soon. At the first Howe Business Summit Mr. Kent Lowder came to the stage to speak about the park. To begin Lowder gave background of the park’s funding and future plans to give the park to the City of Howe, “It is not being built by the municipality of the City, it is a partnership between four key organizations that are contributors. Texoma Health Foundation, now Texoma Community Foundation (TCF) (…), the bulk of our funding for our park is from a family foundation through them. In addition, the way we are building the park is its being done technically by TCF. We have a park board that is part of TCF that is made up of community people here in Howe. Currently, the
property is owned by TCF and we are building it. Howe ISD is a key partner with us, the school district is funding and built the tennis courts that are there. Saddleback Ventures is a local landowner that dedicated the property and provided the street to get access to the park. Ultimately, when the park is finished, it will be conveyed to the City and the City will maintain and operate the park from that point forward” There are many plans in the works for the park that have been carefully considered by the board members, Lowder stated, “In figuring out what features we wanted to have in the park, there was a community wide survey that was done and then our park board members represent the breadth of our community, people that have been in the community for generations, relative newcomers, people with younger and older kids, we are di (Continued on Page 9)
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