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Shawn Christine (Murphy) Shepard

Posted 2017-07-24 by Judy Wight Branson
Camp Verde Bugle, Camp Verde, Arizona
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Shawn Christine Murphy-Shepard passed away on Sunday May 7, 2017 in
Charlotte, North Carolina, with loved ones by her side. She was born
May 18, 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona, and grew up in Jerome and
Clarkdale.

She graduated from Mingus Union High School where her love of art
was fostered. Her eye for balance and composition, as well as her
ability to bring out the beauty in ordinary objects around her,
served her well in her professional life at architectural firms in
Phoenix.

Shawn later took a position with Mesa Air Group and worked as a
flight attendant for U.S. Airways. She relocated to Charlotte where
she met her life partner, Jack. With Jack, she discovered a new love
of outdoors beyond the desert and together they camped throughout
the southeast, tending their prolific garden whenever they were
home.

We will carry Shawn with us always and remember her for unique inner
beauty and kindness, her enormous artistic talent, her razor sharp
wit, and her fierce loyalty to the ones she loved.

Shawn is survived by her life partner, Jack Zorn of Charlotte, NC,
her parents Tom and Truly Murphy of Clarkdale, her brother Seth
(Cathy) Murphy of Clarkdale, her sisters Sarah (Dwain) Dement of
Jerome and Molly (Aaron) Whittaker of New Jersey, her nieces and
nephews, extended family, and a host of longtime friends.

Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a
donation be made to a charity of your choosing, and that in
celebrating Shawn, you celebrate with laughter.

Information provided by survivors.




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